Hidetoshi Kawaya

Shinpei (2024)

An older brother who can't fit into society, a father who has given up on his future, and a younger sister who is tied to the house. This is the story of the small steps these three people take. The Great East Japan Earthquake suddenly changed the peacefu ...

Sidonie in Japan (2024)

Sidonie Perceval, an established French writer, is mourning her deceased husband. Invited to Japan for the reedition of her first book, she is welcomed by her local editor who takes her to Kyoto, the city of shrines and temples. As they travel together th ...

Suncream and Windchimes (2023)

A couple falls in love again through strange encounters and awkward situations during a hot summer. Hajime sees his wife in the street wearing strange clothes. When asked, she says it wasn't her. Hajime then installs cameras to monitor his wife and that's ...

Four Days Tokyo (2023)

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Knuckle Girl (2023)

Following the story of Ran, who confronts a mysterious organization by participating in a no-rules deathmatch after discovering her missing younger sister Yuzuki is involved in a crime. With danger at every corner, Ran must trade in her boxing gloves for b ...

Is This Heaven? (2023)

An alcoholic and his wife explore a beach site in a strange afterlife. Here they meet a number of odd characters who remind them of their past. ...

Naniwa Kinyudo - Haibara knocks on the door of Imperial Finance! (2022)

Reiko and the Dolphin (2020)

the life of a husband and wife who lost their only daughter in the Great Hanshin Earthquake. Director Imaoka Shinji depicts among the streets of Kobe the restoration of the couple's relationship after the death of their daughter causes the deterioration of ...

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. ...

The Forest of Love (2019)

A con man and a would-be filmmaking crew force themselves into the lives of two grief-scarred young women. But nothing is as it seems. ...

Antiporno (2017)

Kyôko, a traumatized young Japanese girl, finds herself struggling with her self-confidence in her adult life. Growing up in a family without her mother and her sister, she constantly questions the rationale of sex and the notion of liberty in modern Japa ...

Museum: Introduction (2016)

Hitoshi Kudo is a journalist who covers various murder cases. One day, his daughter is kidnapped by the frog man. In order to safely rescue her, Kudo is cornered by one unreasonable instruction after another. ...

The Projects (2016)

Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, there's always something occupying the residents of a housing project in the suburbs of Osaka. However Hinako (Naomi Fujiyama) and Seiji (Ittoku Kishibe) couldn ...

Making of Himizu (2012)

A documentary showcasing the making of Sion Sono's Himizu ...

Himizu (2012)

Two 14-year-olds from troubled, abusive homes come together sharing misery and pain. In the aftermath of an earthquake, the classmates learn how to survive while relying on one another for emotional and physical support. ...

Domestic (2011)

A suspense film based on the original manga by Shuichi Sakabe starring popular gravure idol Shoko Hamada and sexy idol Aino Kishi. Haruka and Nozomi, childhood friends who meet again by accident. ...

Love Exposure (2008)

The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that sh ...

Inju: The Beast in the Shadow (2008)

The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer Shundei Oe, considered by him to be the master of manipulation. ...

Cream Lemon: The End of the Journey (2008)

Aya, who has come to Tokyo on a school trip, uses her free time to go and visit her brother, Jun, who she was separated from after her parents' divorce. Although Aya has a boyfriend named Nobu, she can't help but think about her brother. Aya had harbored a ...

Cream Lemon: Ami's Diary (2007)

On her 18th birthday, Ami Nonomura wants to meet her father and brother who live far away. While searching for her brother's house, she is attacked by a thief, but is helped by Hiroshi Tazaki. They fall in love but discover that they are siblings. ...

Tokyo Zombie (2005)

Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/landfill hybrid. This leads to poor results when the chemicals of the landfill mix with the corpse (and many other corpses) to give rise to a zombie infestatio ...

Kagiganai (2005)

The Strange Saga of Hiroshi the Freeloading Sex Machine (2005)

Sex Machine tells of the affable but simple Hiroshi, who during one sweltering summer in a small, parochial town, moves in with his girlfriend, Haruka. Their lovemaking is as athletic as it is bizarre but a dark storm comes looming when Haruka's ex boyfrie ...

Inagawa Junji no Anata no tonari no kowai hanashi: Fuyu no Kai (2005)

Junji Inagawa, Japan's most famous horror storyteller, presents this hair-raising omnibus horror film. Saori, who has started living alone for the first time in her life, comes home one day feeling tipsy and falls asleep at the kotatsu... Includes the firs ...

Black Kiss (2004)

Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art ...

Sixth Sense Hooker (2001)

Yuki is a sought-after hooker, who also has a special ability: she can see ghosts! Yuki is very distraught by the ghost images, and it starts affecting her performance at work. One of the ghosts makes an attempt to communicate with her and ask her for help ...

The Whispered City (2000)

Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses. ...

Charisma (1999)

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, encountering a pec ...

Unlucky Monkey (1998)

A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string of improbable accidents. But having so much cash doesn't ...

The Cold-Blooded Trap (1998)

Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya. ...

Married Female Banker (1998)

Tomoko couldn't sleep all night. She bought a house and can't pay the mortgage. Tomoko is a banker, and she mainly goes out on the road, but her performance is not good. She nand her husband discuss money, but as usual, she says she'll do something about i ...

Fireworks (1997)

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark an ...

Ike-ike Densha: Hamete, Ikasete, Yamenaide! (1997)

Pink film directed by Yūji Tajiri. ...

The Revenge: A Visit from Fate (1997)

Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he got blood on his sleeve. A ...