Junichi Watanabe

Kimi ni todoku koe (2008)

Drama about a young doctor. ...

Tear Jar (2008)

A magazine editor loses his wife to cancer and he keeps her ashes in a jar. When he begins dating her sister, he becomes overwhelmed with guilt. ...

Marriage Ring (2007)

TheForbidden pure love story, based on the original work of Junichi Watanabe. Chitani Moriya is an ordinary 25-year-old office worker who is driven by a marriage desire. ...

Talk, Talk, Talk (2007)

The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as sit-down comedy. Even though Mitsuba is mediocre at best, he ends up teaching three students. ...

Love Never to End (2007)

He is Kikuji Murao (Etsushi Toyokawa), a former best-selling novelist who has had a decade-long dry spell that has reduced him to university teaching and magazine hackery. After divorcing his wife (Reiko Takashima) and leaving behind his teenage daughter ( ...

New Fist of the North Star: The Cursed City (2003)

In the 21st century, a nuclear war turned most of the Earth's surface into a desert wasteland, which also resulted in the contamination of the Earth's water supply. A man named Sanga has built the fortified haven of the "Last Land", where he rules as its d ...

Maitresse (2000)

Paradise Lost (1998)

A couple fall deeply in love. Unfortunately, they are both already married to other people. The resulting affair leads to the man losing his job. Both divorce their spouses, but while travelling together, they decide that the only way for them to be perfec ...

Lost Paradise (1997)

Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. Together they find the passion no longer present in their marriages. ...

JOKER: Marginal City (1992)

Joker is a cyborg who has superior strength, can absorb the DNA of any person by touch and regrow its body or part of it at will (hence Joker can be a male or a female). Joker belongs to a special troop of law enforcement: as cop, judge and executioner at ...

Cherry Blossoms (1989)

A story about love triangle between mother and daughter relation... ...

Expunged Chronicle of Miroku (1989)

A psychic ninja fantasy suggesting that the assassins did not die out during the Sengoku era but burrowed under Japan, where they fought a new war against the alien occupants of a crashed spaceship that has lain undisturbed for several millennia. ...

Reason For Not Divorcing (1987)

Yoshiko Mita and Masahiko Tsugawa enthusiastically perform a couple who know each other's affairs and affairs and still do not part with each other even after various emotional conflicts. A work that is highly supported by women. ...

Maryuu Senki (1987)

Once upon a time, there was a certain family having strong influence on the rule of the Imperial Court. They had their own might called "Kidou," and yet got hated because of the might itself. At last, the patriarch of the family was entrapped to his death, ...

Metamorphosis (1986)

A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film's heroine. ...

Flakes of Snow (1985)

A troubled architect weaves his way through numerous romantic situations in a search for true love and contentment. ...

Make-Up (1984)

Akan ni hatsu (1975)

Twisted Sex (1971)

A look at sex in Japan, that covers underground gay life, transvestites, sex change operations, tattoos, and S&M. What does it mean to live an individualistic life in the modern age? By capturing the seemingly bizarre customs of men in drag and women in me ...