Maki Nishiyama

Whispering Stillness (2023)

Aki, the young daughter of the Iwatas, disappeared five years ago. They still distribute missing person fliers every week. The husband, Masayuki, would like to move on with their life, and is sad that their marriage has cooled off. The wife, Ryoko, spends ...

Yamabuki (2022)

A story of finding a place to root yourself when life's obstacles have dispirited you. Chang-su, a former equestrian athlete for the South Korean national team, was forced to give up on his dream early. He finds himself working at a quarry in the rural tow ...

Psychology Counselor (2022)

Once the One (2022)

One night, yu meet kanae who lives and paints in an old Japanese house. a story about two lonely people on a summer night. ...

A Rainbow-colored Trip (2021)

Director Shinji Imaoka, whose critically acclaimed film "Reiko Iruka" was selected as one of the top ten Japanese films of 2020 by the film magazine "Eiga Geijutsu," presents this musical-style short film set at a rainy campsite, depicting a girl's desire ...

Wife of a Spy (2020)

It's 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband but is beginning to suspect he's up to something. Soon she allows herself to be drawn into a game in which ...

The Modern Lovers (2020)

A married Japanese man living in the country agrees to meet with an ex-lover in Tokyo, leading him to question his life choices. ...

Shell and Joint (2019)

Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including ...

The Kamagasaki Cauldron War (2018)

Kamagasaki is an "invisible" slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. When the local gang has its treasured cauldron stolen, a war to find it begins involving the thugs, a 12 years old kid, a prostitute and a pickpocket, includin ...

Asako I & II (2018)

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality. ...

Impossibility Defense (2018)

At a certain park, there is a mysterious man, who has red eyes and a black suit, that people can go to and request him to kill someone. His assassinations can never be blamed on him because he takes no illegal action. His strength is in the power of sugges ...

Breath of Rokkasho (2017)

Japanese society is without ideals - Two men and one woman, who grew up in a religious organization in , meet again and question their own ideals. ...

Keita Never Die (2017)

Keita Shimabukuro, a younger brother of Aki Shimabukuro who sells her body for a living, crashes in his sister's place. An evil plot by Sachi, the daughter of the leader of the Kimura gang, ends up with Keita dumped into a river. His body is washed ashore ...

Summer Girls: Himegoto (2017)

Naomi (Makoto Nishiyama), who returned to a small town because her adoptive father was about to die, met her brother-in-law, Hiroyuki (Hideyuki Kamada), again. Both of them have a history of becoming a man and woman, and Naomi feels an uncontrollable feeli ...

Tokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 4・Area ∞ (2016)

The 4th volume of Eros Suspense that depicts the terrible living hell that unfolds in a secret cell. Noriko, an underground idol involved in a conspiracy, is imprisoned in an isolated prison "Area ∞". It is a terrifying cell where the worst rape murderer ...

My Technicolor Girl (2016)

Nagano has had a sickness of the heart for 40 years and has been hospitalized at the mental hospital in Fukushima. However, during the evacuation when the Great East Japan Earthquake hit on March 11, 2011, knowing that he's already completely healed, he ma ...

I Am a Weapon (2016)

A piano teacher struggles with the dark legacy of his family: he once witnessed his father beating a man to death. Fearing a genetic inclination for violence he struggles to stay sane when he is pulled down the dark path of an illegal firm that sells reven ...

Please (2015)

Spin-off short story of the "Senritsu Kaiki File Super Kowa Too!" series, which is set after FILE-02. ...

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! Final Chapter (2015)

Eighteen months have gone by and Kudo and Ichikawa are still lost in a parallel universe. When they vanished, a giant appeared in the sky above Shinjuku. ...

In the Case of Noriko (2015)

Dual City (2015)

2034, Japan is divided into North and South parts. In the South, people live a peaceful life, while conflicts are going on in the North. For Yoriko, a nurse in the North, her sole consolation is to visit where she can access her late daughter's lifetime in ...

Sanchû Uprising: Voices at Dawn (2015)

1726, Sanchu, Okayama Prefecture: farmers negotiate with the feudal domain in order to seek exemption from rising taxes. Infighting leads to suppression by the samurai class, and the farmers band together for battle. It's a moment of injustice, setting the ...

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! The Most Terrifying Movie in History (2014)

In this sixth installment, director Kudo enlists the help of powerful psychic Dogen , physicist Masahiko Saito, and idol Akari, to make a big movie while investigating the abandoned "Tatari Village", where anyone who enters goes insane or dies. ...

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! Preface: True Story of the Ghost of Yotsuya (2014)

From the team's previous work, director Kudo is now convinced of the existence of parallel universes. But now, a new video posted convinces the group to learn the truth about a mysterious woman with a swollen face. ...

Odayaka (2012)

Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease. Saeko, who is in a divorce, is worried that her daughter is exposed to radiation. Yukako is also afraid of radiation ...

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01: Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman (2012)

1st Entry in a mockumentary series from Koji Shiraishi. Depicts a TV crew as they cover the urban legend of "Kuchisake-Onna" or "Slit-Mouthed Woman". ...

The Ideal Way To Spend A Holyday (2010)

When a holiday lasts for so many days, it becomes somewhat difficult to understand. Suddenly, a foreigner carrying a strange statue runs through. "Come on!" Urged by the chasing voice, the woman suddenly started running, without knowing why... A prince f ...

Goodbye (2009)

Kimi lives with her boyfriend in a cold northern Japanese village on the Aomori coastline near the nuclear power station where he works. One day he becomes radioactively contaminated and leaves but the girl stays behind with her father. ...