Hikari Ishida

Blue Period (2024)

Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It's an effortless performance, and, ultimately… a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beaut ...

90 Years Old – So What? (2024)

Aiko Satō, who has won many literary awards, retired from her life as a writer and had no guests. She spent a gloomy time, but then a middle-aged editor named Tachibana came with a commission for a story. The story begins with a series of essays that are ...

Homestay (2022)

Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is "lucky" and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Makoto Kobayashi, who just died, and needs to figure out the cause of his dea ...

Grown-ups (2021)

Yumi (Mai Kiryu), studying design at university, is dating Naoya (Kisetsu Fujiwara), a member of the theatre society, when one day she learns that she's pregnant. She tells Naoya, who dreams of owning his own theatre company in the future. The more they fa ...

Skeleton Flowers (2021)

High school student, Yo, lived with her father, Nao, after her mother, Sachiyo, left the family when she was very young. However, their life together came to an end and they started a new life as a family of four with her father's second marriage partner, ...

Mischievous Kiss the Movie Part 1: High School (2016)

Based on a popular manga series of the same name, this Japanese romantic comedy follows the lives of two high school students, Kotoko, a bubbly girl who's hopeless in school, and Naoki, her smart and handsome senior. Although Kotoko gathers up the courage ...

Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current (2016)

Private Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and Miyuki Ogawa arrive in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. They are interested in a case which involves discovered bodies. The bodies were found drifting in the Seto Inland Sea, where the currents repeat every 6 hours. ...

Have a Song on Your Lips (2015)

A young piano prodigy, Yuri Kashiwagi, returns to her hometown after several years and joins a middle school to mentor the choir group. ...

Switching – Goodbye Me (2007)

After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is surprised to reunite with his childhood friend Kazumi. ...

Séance (2004)

A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. Instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by working with the police as a psychic consultant to 'find' the girl. Just when it all seems to go right, everything ...

Tokyo Marigold (2001)

Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for his girlfriend to return from overseas, she requests to enter into a relationship with him for just one year. ...

One Summer's Day (1999)

Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relationship between a young lad and an eccentric old man. Fifth-grader Yuta (Takuro Atsugi) is a typical city ch ...

Adrenaline Drive (1999)

A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A cross-country chase ensues. ...

Fascination Amour (1999)

Lau is a spoiled playboy who's on fiancée number 8 - and makes sport of getting rid of them. With his entourage (including an amusing Anthony Wong) in tow, he boards the cruise ship Fascination with the intent of ridding himself of his latest set-up. Howe ...

Haruka, Nostalgia (1993)

Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the author's real name. ...

Waiting for the Flood (1991)

A young asthmatic man learns he has magical powers. ...

My Soul Is Slashed (1991)

A hospital accidentally gives a man Count Dracula's blood while trying to save his life. A year later, he's back from the dead, trying to right the wrongs of his life while trying to resist the urge to become a vampire. ...

Chizuko's Younger Sister (1991)

The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter Mika is suddenly in a dangerous situation, Chizuko returns as a ghost to save her; reunited with her sister ...

Why She Won't Marry (1990)

The Glorious Asuka Gang! (1988)

In the year 199X, on the dark, shady streets of New Kabuki Town, the free-for-all between gangs of young delinquents and a corrupt police force is further complicated by the appearance of a mysterious girl named Asuka. ...

Hana no Asuka-gumi! (1988)

Television drama adaptation of the manga by Satosumi Takaguchi. ...

A-11 (2019)

A film by Tomonari Kamobayashi ...