Hiroyuki Onoue

The Young Strangers (2024)

Ayato Kazama is repaying his deceased father's debts and caring for his mother, who suffers from a serious illness, while working at a construction site during the day and at the karaoke bar his parents opened at night. His brother, Sohei, lives with him a ...

Kami no Ko wa Tsubuyaku (2023)

One family changes as they join a religious group. Kinoshita Haruka is forced to engage in her religious activities by her mother, Aiko, who is an avid believer and forbids her from making friends or participating in events at her school. Her father Shinji ...

闇に咲く花 (2023)

Sorezore no Hana (2022)

Roleless (2022)

Miyamatsu, who works as a cable-car operator, is also a film extra. Through his different characters he has been living the life of a stranger, only playing that part. Finally he comes face to face with his own life, the one he had lost. ...

VAMP SHOW (2022)

Barber Shop with a View of the Sea (2022)

Set in a barbershop in a small town by the sea, this is a story about a quiet but passionate one-hour encounter between an old owner and a young customer. ...

Asakusa Kid (2021)

Before he hit it big, Takeshi Kitano got his start apprenticing with comedy legend Fukami of Asakusa. But as his star rises, his mentor's declines. ...

Gift of Fire (2021)

Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that makes use of nuclear fission energy. While doing research to save Japan, the researchers there wonder if they should promote the development of weapons as s ...

The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (2021)

The best-selling "The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl" novel is a story set in Kyoto about a "Senpai" who has a crush on "The Girl with Black Hair", his junior, and depicts how he gets caught up in various incidents by trying to draw her attention. Adopting t ...

The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood (2021)

In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set. ...

The Voice of Sin (2020)

Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago. The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterio ...

Seijo Story: 60 Years of Making Films (2019)

After meeting as college students in the cinema town of Seijo, husband and wife Nobuhiko and Kyoko Obayashi have gone on to direct and produce acclaimed films together for 60 years. ...

The Master of Funerals (2019)

Alumni of Ibaraki High School learn that one of their classmates is killed in an accident on the tenth anniversary of their graduation, necessitating an unexpected reunion and "on-campus funeral". They spend a strange night together, during which the secre ...

Evil and The Mask (2018)

Kuki Fumihiro is a son from a wealthy zaibatsu (conglomerate) family. His father raises him to become pure evil. Kuki kills his father to protect his adopted sister Kaori. Afterward, Kuki disappears. He undergoes plastic surgery and takes the identity of ...

Innocent Curse (2017)

A suburban town is faced with a series of bizarre incidents in which children disappear and three days later an adult in their life dies. A mysterious "child whisperer" phantom appears before journalist Shunya, who is investigating the incidents, and his g ...

March Goes out Like a Lamb (2017)

The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wounds. As he prepares to secure another win in an upcoming tournament, the father who left the three sisters appears and disturbs the peace. ...

March Comes In Like a Lion (2017)

Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by himself in Tokyo, because his parents and younger sister died in an traffic accident when he was little. One d ...

Cruel Opera Litchi Hikari Club Stage Play (2016)

This is the second theatrical play adaptation of the popular manga series "Lychee Light Club. ...

The King of Minami Returns: Scholarship and Oreore Fraud (2016)

Feared loan shark Ginjiro Manda investigates a group of fraudsters when a struggling student and a widow with links to the group ask him for money. ...

Chateau de la Reine (2015)

The hotel Chateau de la Reine is located in Paris, France and it is considered the finest hotel there. The hotel has been in existence for 300 years. Tourists from all around the world want to stay at the Chateau de la Reine. A travel agency, which is teet ...

A Woman from Ashio (2014)

A story about a woman from Yanaka Village, Tochigi Prefecture, which was abolished by the government due to the Ashio Copper Mine pollution incident in the late Meiji Period. The drama depicts the struggle of the woman who gradually matures as a person th ...

RoomMate (2013)

Harumi Hagiwara lands in the hospital after being involved in an accident. She hits it off with her nurse, Reiko Nishimura, and the two decide to move in together after she's discharged. However, Harumi begins to witness a series of mysterious events soon ...

How Selfish I Am! (2013)

Even though Kumiko realizes that she won't be able to patch things up with her former lover, she ends up preparing a meal for him. Though she lives only for going to the concerts of her favorite band, Mie curses her nonexistent luck when she's forced to do ...

Song of the Beginning (2013)

Wataru, a freelance cameraman who works for a travel magazine in Tokyo. He had aimed to be a teacher but failed to achieve his goal and left home to go to Tokyo. However, he does not do well in Tokyo and has to return to his hometown. Wataru reunites with ...

Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)

In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie. ...

I'll Give It My All ... Tomorrow (2013)

41-year-old Shizuo Daikoku (Shinichi Tsutsumi) suddenly quits his job at a company to become a mangaka. His family and friends become involved in his new pursuit... ...

Kyokyo Jitsujitsu (2012)

At a job interview, Makoto tries to impress the interviewer by telling a lie: "I rode around Japan on stilts. His girlfriend, Nozomi, runs out of patience with him and leaves him after trying to pass the interview with a lie. In order to get back together ...

Peak: The Rescuers (2011)

Shimazaki Sanpo is an experienced mountain climber and rescue team volunteer. Sanpo loves the mountains and wants as many people as possible to experience everything they have to offer so much so that he never holds a grudge against anyone for causing an a ...

Patisserie Coin De Rue (2011)

A disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work. Aiming to become a high-calibre pastry chef, she is determined to overcome both her past and the challenges ahead. Pastry critic Tomura is a frequent visitor to ...

Fireworks from the Heart (2010)

On September 9th, the day of the Katakai Fireworks Festival, high school student Hana comes home from the hospital after six months of treatment for leukemia. She then discovers that her older brother Taro has become a social recluse. Taro used to be tend ...

Zombrex: Dead Rising Sun (2010)

Told entirely from a first-person perspective, the film follows George, a disabled boy struggling to survive a zombie outbreak in Japan alongside his older brother Shin. When they encounter hostile survivors and growing danger, George is forced to rely on ...

Making of Love Exposure (2010)

Making of documentary for Sion Sono's magnum opus "Love Exposure". ...

Rookies the Movie: Graduation (2009)

Futakotamagawa High School had a Baseball Club, but because of a fight during one of their games, they were suspended for a year from all games. Composed of student delinquents, Futakotamagawa High's new Literature teacher Kawato Koichi inspires the Baseba ...

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 ...

Peeping Tom (2008)

Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was his own death. ...

After School (2008)

A middle school teacher, Jinno, is friends with a young couple that is about to have a baby. But on the eve of the birth, the father, Kimura, disappears. Then, a hired private detective appears and ask Jinno's help to find Kimura. ...

Be a Man!! Samurai School (2008)

Momotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made. Momotaro, proficient in academics and martial arts becomes good friends with Hidemaro an underachieving weakling. Omito Date, former student leader, plans his ...

Kitokito! (2007)

Coming of age story about a boy and his mother. ...

The Letters (2006)

How have you been? Takeshi's letter is delivered one each month to his younger brother, Naoki. Takeshi is serving a life term in prison for the crime that he had committed to save his brother. But the crime's aftereffect extends to Naoki, and, branded as a ...

Rainbow Song (2006)

Tomoya Kishida is working as a staffer in a television studio when he hears about the death of his close friend, Aoi Sato. This sparks his recollection of the events in life they shared from meeting at a record store, shooting a short film as part of their ...

We Shall Overcome Someday (2005)

Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a rampaging crowd of Korean boys, outraged by insults perpetrated by several of his idiotic class-mates on two ...

School Wars: Hero (2004)

Set in the mid-1970s, the film is based on the true story of Yoshiharu Yamaguchi, a teacher and former Japanese international rugby union player, who turned-around a failing high school in Kyoto, giving special attention to the rugby team, which included t ...