Kentaro Tamura

5 Centimeters per Second (2025)

Spring 1991. Takaki and Akari meet in elementary school and continue to exchange letters even after she moves away. They make a final promise to each other to meet again. It is now 2008. They live their respective lives, paths never crossing. Enduring memo ...

Bullet Train Explosion (2025)

When panic erupts on a Tokyo-bound bullet train that will explode if it slows below 100 kph, authorities race against time to save everyone on board. ...

The Harbor Lights (2025)

The growth and struggles of Akari, a third-generation Korean born the year of the Great Hanshin Earthquake. A post-disaster story based on people living in Kobe. ...

My Sunshine (2024)

Two young skaters, polar opposites in personality, team up to train for an ice-dancing competition, their growing bond blurring the lines between partners and more as winter unfolds. ...

Fly On (2023)

Watako has just lost her lover, Kimura, in a traffic accident in Tokyo. She decides to bury the trauma of this tragedy and carries on with her life with her husband. Although she puts on a facade for a while, the loss of Kimura has left deep marks, and she ...

Playing Dead (2023)

Hiroshi Yoshida wanted to become an actor, but before he knew it, he only played the roles of corpses. ...

Everything Will Be Owlright! (2022)

Tamura Yujiro and Hiyori have been married for four years. They look like a happily married couple, but, Hiyori secretly badmouths her husband on social media page "Husband Death Note. ...

Hand (2022)

Sawako enjoys taking photos of older men and making scrapbooks with them. Although the men she has dated have always been older than her, she has been unable to speak well with her father and they have grown apart. ...

The Welkin (2022)

Cat and Salt, or Sugar (2022)

Ichiro is a 32-year-old man who has voluntarily become his mother's "pet," retreating from the flow of life suggested by society: university, career, marriage, parenting, home ownership. His quiet life at home (with an alcoholic father) is interrupted when ...

God Seeks in Return (2022)

A heartwarming, yet bittersweet love story between a man seeking something in return and a woman who repays kindness with betrayal. ...

My Small Land (2022)

Sarya lives between three worlds: Having fled from Turkey to Japan, her small family tries to maintain their Kurdish traditions. On the other hand, Sarya, who arrived when she was five, feels at home in Japan. But then, the family loses its refugee-status. ...

Surrogacy (2021)

Tamaki who becomes a surrogate mother for the sake of her elder brother, Satoshi, who is gay by going through artificial insemination using his partner Keito's sperm with her egg and the siblings wanting to reveal the truth to their parents after her pregn ...

Tomorrow's Family (2020)

Risa Onodera, played by Miyazaki, had a groom runaway on the wedding day four years ago. Her father, Shusaku (Matsushige) and her mother, Machiko (Matsuzaka), built a large two-family house to live with their daughter and her new family. One day, Risa says ...

Go to see Pinkerton (2018)

Yuko, a former leader of the five-member idol group Pinkerton, with the help of man named Matsumoto, tries to reunite the now-disbanded group. ...

Messy (2017)

A drama in which an office lady searches for her own way of life. Sayumi, a 26-year-old OL, thinks that she only wants to have sex with people she likes, but the girls around her have teased her about the idea. In front of her, men who are not normal appea ...

Love and Goodbye and Hawaii (2017)

Rinko and Isamu have been living together for three years in what seems like an idyllic situation, except for one detail: they broke up months ago. Even so, despite misgivings from her friends, the setup is comfortable enough for Rinko not to feel pressure ...

Chihayafuru: Part II (2016)

After successfully won the Tokyo qualifying tournament, Chihaya and her friends are set to go on to the nationals. As they prepare, Chihaya is faced with new personal issues as her childhood friend and inspiration, Arata, has announced that he has quit com ...

Sing My Life (2016)

Katsu (Mitsuko Baisho) is a 73-years-old woman. She often makes trouble with her biting remarks. While raising a daughter alone, Katsu was unable to live the life she wished for. One day, Katsu goes to a photo studio and takes a picture. She leaves the ph ...

Chihayafuru: Part I (2016)

When Chihaya Ayase was in the 6th grade of elementary school, she met Arata Wataya. Arata Wataya transferred from Fukui Prefecture. Taichi Mashima was Chihaya Ayase's friend since they were little. Arata got close to Chihaya and Taichi from the card game k ...

As the Gods Will (2014)

High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from ...

Silver Spoon (2014)

Ooejo Agricultural High School is located in Hokkaido. Most students are from families involved in agriculture and their dreams are to continue working in agriculture. Meanwhile, Yuugo (Kento Nakajima), who graduated from a prestigious middle school, appli ...

The Apology King (2013)

Ryoro Kurojima is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by using his apology techniques on anything from simple arbitration to a national crisis. ...

I LOVE YOU (2013)

A Story of Yonosuke (2013)

The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, he lives in a suburb far from the excitement of the big city and commutes to ...

Virgin (2012)

Omnibus by three young directors in the spotlight of Japan's independent film industry, dealing with the theme of "lost virginity." Yoshida Koki, whose film {Household X} was an official selection for the Berlin International Film Festival's Forum, depicts ...

Norwegian Wood (2010)

Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori. ...