Hideko Hara

Rental Family (2025)

An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese 'rental family' agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients' worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blu ...

Faceless (2024)

Kaburagi was arrested as a suspect in a brutal murder case, but he escapes. He continues to hide and move all around Japan. During this time, he meets Sayaka, Kazuya and Mai. Detective Matanuki is on the trail to capture Kaburagi. He interrogates the peopl ...

Or Utopia (2024)

Japan, 2024. The Earth is dominated by a mysteriously giant creature (That Thing) and the group of 12 survivors has formed an uneasy community out of necessity to survive Two years later, Hirayama, the hotel owner, is found dead. Is it suicide or murder? A ...

Great Absence (2024)

It's about the reunion of a long-estranged father and his son amid lost memories and scattered fragments of lives. ...

Neighbor X (2023)

The "ultimate love" that aims at "tolerance" and "symbiosis" will be sublimated and ask questions to the chaotic society of today. ...

The Moon (2023)

Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened. ...

Tulips in October (2022)

Detective Ushio is called in to the murder of an elite heart surgeon, who was stabbed twice at a cluster of vending machines in a parking lot. ...

The Last 10 Years (2022)

Twenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has ten years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love—until she meets a man named Kazuto Manabe at a school reunion. ...

Popran (2022)

Tagami, a once successful manager of a manga distribution has run out of luck and now he must catch a mysterious high-speed fly within 6 days to regain it back. ...

We Couldn't Become Adults (2021)

Prodded by a friend request, a feckless forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams. ...

In the Wake (2021)

Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence for another crime, and he surfaces as a suspect but detective Tomashiro can't nail down conclusive proof. ...

The Fish with One Sleeve (2021)

Hikari, a trans woman, works and lives in Tokyo, but despite being understood by her friend and coworkers, there remains an underlying lack of confidence and feeling of unfulfillment. She makes the decision to contact her high school crush, Takashi, hoping ...

Suicide Forest Village (2021)

One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out. ...

Town Without Sea (2020)

It is a youth film about the boys in their late teens spend before they become adults. Sho and Tiaga, who grew up in the same neighborhood since they were little, are in their last year of high school. They are also the duo who beat the drums at town festi ...

All the Things We Never Said (2020)

Atsuhisa lives with wife Natsumi and daughter Suzu. He and friend Takeda study languages to become businessmen. When Natsumi reveals an affair and wants divorce, their lives change. ...

Switch (2020)

Prosecutor Komazuki Nao from the Yokohama District Public Prosecutors Office's Minato Mirai branch and lawyer Tsutaya Madoka (Matsu Takako) from the law firm Yokohama Gold dated for seven years since the time they were in school. Even after they broke up, ...

Not Quite Dead Yet (2020)

After Nanase's father drops dead due to a drug that causes temporal death for 2 days, she is named the president of his pharmaceutical company. Nanase endeavors to prevent her father's enemies from prematurely cremating his body before the drug can wear of ...

Summer Night Sky, Autumn Sunset, Winter Morning and Spring Breeze (2019)

An omnibus featuring four stories about the four seasons. ...

When a Tree Falls (2019)

A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into his son's death, what appears to be a tragic accident turns out to have been the result of multiple blunder ...

Handling Method for Grumpy Women (2019)

Ai Majima studies AI at a university. She needs to collect data for her graduation thesis. The theme for her thesis is "Ways to make women feel better according to differences in the brain between men and women." For her research on her thesis, Ai begins w ...

According to Our Butler (2019)

Master Kaei, the heir to the affluent and well-regarded Karasuma family, is back at home in Japan after a period of studying in the United Kingdom. Back at the mansion he has Kisaragi Soma to serve him. Soma is efficient and intelligent beyond his station. ...

Ultraman R/B The Movie: Select! The Crystal of Bond (2019)

The mysterious Ultraman, Tregear, has suddenly appeared in Ayaka City. Tregear asks what one would do to make their dreams come true, prompting Katsumi to search for his own dream. As a monster appears for the first time in a year, Ultraman Blu and Ultrama ...

Lying to Mom (2018)

Suzuki Koichi, a 30-something hikikomori shut-in, allows his mother to dotingly tend to his needs. When she discovers that Koichi has killed himself, the shock is so great she loses consciousness and her memory of that day. ...

Tomato No Shizuku (2017)

With their hair salon business now on track, longtime couple Sakura and Makoto mull over inviting Sakura's estranged father to their upcoming wedding. ...

Rage (2016)

A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word "ikari" ("rage") written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be ...

A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (2016)

A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding. ...

Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill (2013)

Ataru, who suffers from "savant syndrome," has the power to discover, observe, see through, and deduct microscopic evidence of unsolved cases. Why does he always go to the criminal sites? What explains his strange behavior? Meanwhile, a mystery unfolds wit ...

Before the Vigil (2013)

Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer and later goes into a coma. Matsuoi then ...

Rooftop Apartment (2011)

Asako is determined to live her life with her own will after witnessing her best friend's divorce and former manager's death. ...

Surely Someday (2010)

Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spend their free time practicing for their school's upcoming festival. When the festival is abruptly concealed, they come up with a dimwitted strategy of fakin ...

My Grandma (2008)

Home-design sales representative Tomohiro lives with his wife and their son. As his job involves houses, it is his motto to take great care of the family who live in the house. However, he has been working so hard that he has forgotten to cherish his own f ...

Nekonade (2008)

The highly disciplined human resources manager Taro Onizuka starts to heal and change as he raises the kitten he found in a park. ...

26 Years Diary (2007)

Based on a true story, Shyon (Lee Taesung) travels from Korea to broaden his horizons, studying in Japan he meets Yuri (High and Mighty Color's lead singer, Maakii). Both share similar interests in music and sports as they become closer while dealing with ...

Watashi ga watashi de aru tame ni (2006)

Prison Girl (2006)

You Were Unknown Then (2006)

Kazumi is a successful music composer in Tokyo. He receives a telephone call from his mother and is told about his former teacher's death. Getting on to a train to attend the funeral, Kazumi's thoughts wonder back to his youth. ...

69 (2004)

Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention ...

Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case (2004)

A couple died in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, in an apparent double suicide, the circumstances of which were unclear. ...

Uchū no natsu (2003)

After losing her parents, Kanako moves in with her grandmother in a town by the sea. ...

Hogi-Lala (2003)

Set in the near future. Children who are contaminated by radiation poisoning face the fate of being cast into the sea. However, one boy manages to survive and drift to Hogi-Lala Island, where only children live. ...

Cheers Heaven (2003)

Teenage girl has to decide if she is capable of being captain of the school's cheerleading squad. Suddenly the team lost the support and inspiration. ...

Like Shooting Stars in the Twilight (2002)

A drama depicting the whereabouts of love between men and women in their 40s, who reunite at an alumni association and begin dating. ...

The Boy Who Saw the Wind (2000)

Amon is a boy who can control the wind. Branik, ruler of the Empire of the Golden Snake, wants Amon's power to complete the ultimate weapon and sends his troops to capture the boy. Amon, using his talents, manages to runs away with Maria, one of the People ...

A Class to Remember II (1996)

The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School. ...

Supermarket Woman (1996)

A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business. ...

Shall We Dance? (1996)

A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to fin ...

A Brief Message from the Heart (1995)

A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man. ...

Catch Up (1992)

An investigation into the obsession of a former detective the loser of life! ...

Bakayarô! 3: Weird Bunch (1990)

Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 10 (1990)

Kyosuke (Masaomi Kondo) and his sister Nobuko (Yoko Moriguchi) were invited to the 10th anniversary party of the travel agency "Pigeon". At that seat, Ayako, the younger sister of President Gentaro, is shot dead. Other venues included Gentaro's brother-in- ...

Korekara monogatari - Shonen tachi no buruusu (1988)

One is a designer and company president, the other an athlete and model. Although on different paths in life and from different backgrounds, in high school these two were once good friends. This movie tells the story of their friendship. ...

The Greatest Man in the World (1986)

Remake of classic samurai film of 1932 ...

The Lonely Olympics (1983)

This is a story about the youth of a university student who, by chance, aims to compete in the Montreal Olympics in a single scull (a single-seater boat). Every night he stays up all night playing mahjong and drinking. Masao lives his life aimlessly, and e ...

P. P. Rider (1983)

Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped. ...