Hinako Saeki

Shimaneko (2024)

A fantasy that anthropomorphizes the stray cats living on Kitagijima, a remote island off the coast of Okayama, much like Yumiko Oshima's classic manga "Wata no Kunihoshi". The film depicts young girls conversing in "cat language" (with subtitles), occasio ...

Nightmare Resort (2023)

College student Sakura (Rikka Ihara) has trouble fitting in with her class. Her childhood friend Satoshi (Taiyu Fujiwara) thinks that a change of scenery is just what she needs to feel better, and along with another childhood friend, Nozomi (Shiori Akita), ...

Confetti (2023)

Junior high school student Yuki, a member of a travelling theater troupe, changes schools every month for performances. Because of this, he does not expect to meet people at any of his schools and does not try to make friends. However, when he attends a ne ...

Restaurant in the Forest (2022)

Aesop's Game (2019)

Three girls - Miwa, an introvert who's best friend is her turtle, Saori, a rich girl from a celebrity family, and Koyuzu, a member of a revenge agency - wind up in a complex rivalry with one another. ...

Play Room (2018)

Crying Bitch (2018)

An unfaithful husband discovers a dark side to his wife that proves to be very frightening. ...

Setagaya-ku, 39-chome (2014)

Japan's Year Zero (2014)

That day, the time stopped, but pushed a couple to make a move. The husband looked for his wife, and the wife looked for herself. They get separated and got reunited. Again, at the same place. ...

The Intermission (2013)

A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie fans with its retro appearance and unique lineup. Unique guests visiting the theater draw a human pattern dur ...

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. ...

Assault Girls (2009)

Three women and one man - with an assortment of weaponry - wage war against giant mutant sandwhales in a barren digital landscape, all to achieve points within the virtual reality video game called Avalon. ...

Elite Yankee Saburo (2009)

Saburo Okouchi (Hideo Ishiguro), is your somewhat shy, but otherwise average, teen entering high school. Unfortunately for Saburo, his two older brothers left a looming legacy at the high school. His brothers were legendary troublemakers and now Saburo tak ...

The Women of Fast Food (2007)

"Tachiguishi", that is to say, grifters who make it their profession to "eat-and-run", was created by the world-famous filmmaker, Mamoru Oshii. In 2006, he directed "Tachigui -- the Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters", a feature film which was made us ...

Humming Life (2007)

There are many different kinds of lives in this world. When everyone is gone only the afterimage remains.Ai has only recently came to Tokyo. In this unfamiliar city she is a little bit upset. One day lead by a mysterious stray dog she finds a letter inside ...

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

This is the third in a series of hair-raising omnibus horror stories from Japan's most famous horror storyteller, Junji Inagawa. Matsukawa is guided by Shinohara, the manager of a business partner, to a certain bar in Kamata. Sitting next to him is a pale, ...

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)

Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter Yuri investigates the legend of the guardian monsters, who must rise to protect Japan against the vengeful spi ...

Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies (2001)

Girls surrounding 17 years old are affected by an illness that make her to be 'Stacies': they feel a strange and momentary happiness until they become zombies. ...

Gips (2001)

22-year old secretary Kazuko first bumps into Tamaki on the way back from work. Tamaki is crawling along the sidewalk on crutches at a snail's pace, and stumbles into the young audiotypist after apparently having trouble with an ill-fitting shoe over her c ...

Human Trash (2001)

A washed-up former punk rocker is frustrated by his work at his grandmother's hot spring. He returns to Tokyo and finds himself entangled in a web of crime. ...

Shin rei bideo VI: Honto ni atta kowai hanashi - kyôfu tarento taikendan (2000)

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Zombie Snake (2000)

A family are haunted by a Hebi Onna, a fabled demonic undead Snake Woman. ...

Uzumaki (2000)

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals. ...

Mô, hitori ja nai (1998)

A pair of men and women ran off from a sanatorium where personality fusion treatment for patients with multiple personality disorder was being performed. The man had five personalities and the woman had eight personalities. ...

The Spiral (1998)

A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit. ...

Eko Eko Azarak: Misa the Dark Angel (1998)

Misa Kuroi is a good witch, but wherever she goes, evil follows. When a dying girl appears out of nowhere shouting Misa's name, our heroine goes to work. Following the clues, Misa transfers to the prestigious Saint Salem School for Girls and joins the Dram ...

The Messiah from the Future (1997)

When a visitor from the future shows up at school and instigates a reign of terror, a small group of students must find a way to stop the horror from spreading. ...

A Quiet Life (1995)

A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip. ...

It's a Summer Vacation Everyday (1994)

The Rinkaiji family, by all appearances, is a well-to-do Japanese family. The father, Nariyuki, works in an elite corporation, which gives his wife Yoshiko status in their suburban neighborhood. But the daughter Sugina, who herself has secretly stopped goi ...