Masato Wada

Sisam (2024)

A history drama portraying the confrontation between the indigenous Ainu people living on Japan's northernmost main island—then called "Ezo" and now known as "Hokkaido"—and the "sisam", the Ainu word for ethnic Japanese. ...

Reigen Ohatsu ~ Furueru Iwa ~ (2024)

Set in the late Edo period. Ohatsu, who is the signboard girl for a diner in Nihonbashi Torichō, awakens to a mysterious power – the spiritual ability to see and hear things that ordinary people cannot. Southern Edo magistrate Negishi Hizen-no-kami Yasu ...

Orange Lamp (2023)

Tanno Tomofumi, diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's at the age of 39, Orange Lamp followed a married couple's nine years after realizing that life has no reason to surrender to an disease. ...

Winny (2023)

In the early days of the Internet, a case arises from an innovative software and the developer is falsely arrested by the police. This film is based on the true story of the men who fought against the authorities to protect the future and the rights of eng ...

THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY (2023)

Oda Nobunaga and Nōhime were originally married to mend a hostile relationship between neighbouring regions. Unfortunately, they were like oil and water, making for a somewhat unhappy marriage. When Oda's enemy, Imagawa Yoshimoto, attacks Owari with his v ...

NEKOMIMI - Seaside Pet Detective - (2022)

In the coastal region of Shonan, a young man enlists the help of a eccentric local pet detective to search for his missing pet cat. When the man is unable to pay for the detective's help, he joins the unusual agency to pay off the debt. ...

Dreaming of the Meridian Arc (2022)

In the present day, the local government of Katori City is in the process of sponsoring a taiga drama about its famous historical figure Tadataka Ino, who is known for being the first person to make a map of Japan in 1821. During the process of of making t ...

Bakumatsu Aibou-den (2022)

A single bullet cuts through Kyoto in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate right before the restoration of imperial rule. Who plotted to assassinate Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who is about to become the last shogun of Japan? Was it the faction wanting to overt ...

Fukushima 50 (2020)

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011. ...

An Artist of the Floating World (2019)

In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into WWII. ...

Sekigahara (2017)

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the vari ...

Flower and Sword (2017)

In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age of war is about to end, but Hideyoshi Toyotomi's rule makes life difficult for the people. Monk Senko Ikenobo is a master of flower arrangement. He prays for ...

Fried levanilla with rib steak from Tsudanuma in Nakano (2017)

14 That Night (2016)

In 1987, frustrated junior high student Takashi hates his uncool father hanging around their suburban home all the time, and is pestered by the area's wannabe gangsters. But he's interested in the girl next door, the bounteously-breasted Megumi. One day, T ...

Terminal (2015)

The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is now a motion picture. A lawyer burdened with an inexpiable sin, and an accused woman who seals her past and keeps it a secret. In Kushiro, Hokkaido, the pair who ...

Onmyōji (2015)

The story of Abe no Seimei, an onmyōji in Japan's Heian period, fighting with evil spirits. ...

Kekkon ni Ichiban Chikakute Tooi Onna (2015)

Beppu Sumire is a wedding planner who works for True Love Bridal (TLB), a well-established wedding hall. Her late mother, Sakura, showered love on her and would always tell her that she is lovely. After she passed away, Sumire lived with her father, Tetsur ...

My Little Nightmare: The Movie (2014)

New student Kanji transfers to 6th grade 2 class, where Ayami Mutoi works as the homeroom teacher. Students begin to talk among themselves that they have seen new transfer student Kanji in a dream. Yuiko Koto also had a night mare. In her nightmare, a boy ...

Tug of War! (2012)

The mayor of Oita wants to improve the image of his city, so he instructs Chiaki - a young woman working for the city's PR department - to form a female tug of war team. Nobuo MIZUTA mixes comedy, drama and a pinch of social criticism to tell a tale of eig ...

The King of Minami Returns: A Backstreet Factory in Danger (2012)

Ginjiro meets factory owner Shirakawa, who has been given a 50-million-yen draft he has no memory of. Ginjiro hears rumors of a draft fraud ring. ...

Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto (2009)

The story is about a group of university students who inevitably gets involved in playing a game of "Horumo" - a combat match where each person manipulates 100 spirits (referred to as "oni") to fight the opponent. Akira Abe, a freshman at Kyoto University ...

Run with the Wind Stage Play (2009)

Kakeru, a former elite runner at high school, is chased for stealing food. He is saved by a Kansei University student Haiji, who is also a runner. Haiji persuades Kakeru to live in the old dormitory "Chikusei-so" where he plans to team up with fellow resid ...

Je t'aime: I Am a Beast (2008)

Yuka, a troubled young woman who suddenly begins working part-time as a high-class call girl, finds unexpected romance while on the job. ...

Asymmetry (2008)

Hokuto's dream is to travel around the world as a professional cameraman. One day, he finds that his hospitalized girlfriend's doctor is his old classmate from high school. The doctor, Shinichiro, and Hokuto used to be very close friends, whom all shared a ...