Masato Irie

Strawberry Night: After the Invisible Rain (2013)

Soup (2012)

Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward. One day, Kenichi Shibuya and his boss Yumi Ayase are struck by lightning and die. They go to the afterlife. ...

Japanese Salaryman NEO (2011)

Shinjo is a new employee at NEO Beer, which is currently ranked fifth in the industry. When NEO's president demands that they figure out a way to capture the top market share, Sales division chief Nakanishi and his team are struggling to come up with ideas ...

It's On Me (2009)

News comes out that several people found 1 kg of solid gold in their mail boxes. Maya Yamabuki moves back to her hometown and surprises the movers by the amount of money she gives them. ...

Peanuts (2006)

A hero called the legendary third baseman in the former prestigious grass baseball team "Peanuts", will start to rebuild the peanuts that have now turned into weak teams from the outset. Peanuts are going to fight against the team of strong teams, taking a ...

Aogeba Tôtoshi (2006)

Mortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is also grappling with the issue of mortality as he deals with the impending death of his ailing father, who has de ...

Samurai Commando Mission 1549 (2005)

An accident during tests of an anti-plasma artificial magnetic shield at Japan's Ground Self Defense Force East Fuji practice range sends the 3rd Special Experimental Company, under Colonel Matoba on a time-slip 460 years into the past, into 'the Age of ci ...

Bayside Shakedown 2 (2003)

The movie takes place again in the fictional Wangan Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department the once empty space within Wangan's jurisdiction has become a popular tourist attraction. When a string of murders of company execs begins taking place ...

Saiaku (2001)

Inugami (2001)

Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family ...

Scary Fairy Tales: Alice in Wonderland (1999)

Arisugawa is a businessman who has been transferred to a local branch office. However, the people at the branch office are all peculiar... ...

Keiho (1999)

The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code granting dimini ...

Company Ghost Stories 2 (1997)

This is the second omnibus horror film describing a terrifying experience that takes place in an office where dead and living spirits are stirring. Miki has a psychic vision of the ghost of a woman shedding tears of blood at her new temporary workplace. ...

Company Ghost Stories (1997)

A spine-chilling horror story set in a company, not a school. The film dramatically recreates a bizarre story that occurred in an office. Miki, a temporary worker, feels a spirit when she heads to her new office. On the 13th floor of the building, there us ...

Midori (1996)

Midori is a coming-of-age drama set amongst the heady high school world of peer rivalry and sexual awakening, featuring an emotionally-detached high-school girl who, her parents dead, lives with her brother and his overprotective wife. After being sent out ...

Birthday Present (1995)

Japanese film directed by Michio Mitsuno. ...

Have You Seen the Barefoot God? (1986)

2 almost inseparable friends. The talented painter recognized by all decided to leave the town where they live and become an artist and the shy poet who only sees his future in his mother's business. ...