Fusako Urabe

Yukiko a.k.a (2025)

Yukiko, a 29-year-old elementary school teacher in Tokyo, struggles with student communication and personal insecurities. Overlooked in the "Favorite Teacher Ranking" and uneasy about her boyfriend's marriage hints, she finds solace in hip-hop. Yet, in her ...

Manga Ka Hori Mamoru (2024)

House of Sayuri (2024)

A family moves into a house, but discover that it is haunted by a murdered girl. ...

Promised Land (2024)

Matagi is a group of hunters who lives in the mountains and targets wild animals including bears, but now more and more bear hunting is forbidden by the government. This is a story of two young matagi who struggle in their dying culture. ...

Killing the Violet (2023)

On a normal day, a stranger breaks into Sumire's apartment and assaults her. Sumire reacts incredibly calmly to the incident, but she still feels the dangers and uncertainties creeping upon her. All that seem to be peaceful and ordinary start to collapse. ...

Call Me Chihiro (2023)

An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way. ...

She is me, I am her (2022)

A socially-distanced college reunion, an unusual rapport struck between a food delivery man and a patron, a bus-stop encounter, and a blind woman scammed into thinking her brother is sick constitute the stories of Mayu Nakamura's COVID-era quadriptych—a ...

A Hundred Flowers (2022)

Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of the mother feel as vivid as when he lived them. One in particular, when he believed she had disappeared, haunts him terribly. ...

Yes, I Can't Swim (2022)

Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can't swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between water and people, still he decides on the spur of the moment to enroll in a swimming class. There he encounters the ...

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)

An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets. ...

Among Four of Us (2021)

Three people from a former theater club get back in touch for the first time in 20 years during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each of them have led completely different lives, but an absent woman continues to cast a shadow over them. This story takes place over o ...

Living in the Sky (2020)

In the time after Naomi's parents suddenly die, she happens to meet and bond with the popular actor Morinori Tokito who lives in the same apartment building. ...

Voices in the Wind (2020)

Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her touching search for answers, Haru sets out on a long, eventful journey to her home town, where she lost her family in the flood. ...

Tokyo Adios (2019)

The semi-autobiographical story of a underground comedian in Tokyo, with a cast that features acts performing in the underground circuit today. ...

Asako I & II (2018)

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality. ...

Breathless Lovers (2017)

Suffering from heartbreak and asthma, 23-year-old Toshiyuki pushes the limits of his body to chase the ghost of his recently deceased boyfriend against the black-blue backdrop of Tokyo's cityscape. ...

Night's Tightrope (2016)

Yuki is a 2nd year high school student. She volunteers at a paediatrics ward for her summer vacation, because she wants to witness the moment a person dies. She got that thought after feeling envious of a transfer student's story of seeing a friend's dead ...

Seiza (2013)

A small yet moving dance film that follows Machi—who cannot speak nor hear—her best friend, and a wanted man with whom Machi falls in love with. ...

The Land of Hope (2012)

An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that causes a nearby nuclear station to explode. The residents must evacuate, but the family lives on a farm, with ...

Onobori monogatari (2010)

A young man moves from the countryside to Tokyo, while experiencing hardships and happiness, in his pursuit to become a comics artist. ...

Passion (2008)

A young couple's announcement of their engagement to their friends is followed by a series of interactions and conflicts that forces everyone to reflect on their lives. ...

Talk, Talk, Talk (2007)

The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as sit-down comedy. Even though Mitsuba is mediocre at best, he ends up teaching three students. ...

Curling Love (2007)

Lee Jin Il is dropped from South Korea's curling team. Kimura Izumi is an unsuccessful actress. These two meet through a series of events, and with the help of their friends, form a curling team and aim for the Olympics. ...

Bashing (2006)

Yuko is a Japanese girl who was taken hostage in Iraq while volunteering there as an aid worker. Finally released and back in her hometown, Yuko finds herself ostracized as a national disgrace by society that sees her helping a country other than Japan, an ...

Flic (2005)

Kazuo Murata is a detective who has lost his wife and eventually the meaning of his existence. ...

Café Lumière (2004)

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city's disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a u ...

Antenna (2004)

Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna". ...

Across a Gold Prairie (1999)

Meet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning, he wakes up believing himself to be twenty again. In his mind, he has become the youthful young man that he ...