Mayu Matsuoka

Sylvanian Families: The Movie (2023)

In the enchanting village of Sylvania, Freya, a sweet Chocolate Rabbit girl, tackles two fun tasks for the Star Festival: picking the "Tree of the Year" and finding a birthday gift for her mom. With her adorable animal friends, she goes on a joyful adventu ...

Masked Hearts (2023)

26 years old Hanako is on the verge of directing her first-ever feature film, achieving her childhood dream. Although she's being hindered by an older male assistant director, she has a fateful encounter with a man named Masao, and her life at last begins ...

Naval Port Child: Yokosuka Cleaning 1946 (2023)

Post-war Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Adults who are swayed by the US military stationed in the country and swayed by US intentions cannot afford to care about children who should be protected. The war orphans, who had no choice but to survive on their o ...

Scroll (2023)

The story describes how youngsters struggle to cope with the gap between their ideals and reality. ...

Hell Dogs (2022)

Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members. ...

Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 (2022)

During summer vacation Nobita picks up a small rocket containing Papi, a palm-sized alien president escaping rebels on his home planet Pirika. ...

Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction (2021)

Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the publisher and subordinates and runs the ship well. Chatting with his direct boss he picks up a certain vib ...

Theatre: A Love Story (2020)

The director of a theatre company is in crisis and his actors have lost confidence in him. One day he meets a woman wearing the same shoes as him, immediately sparking chemistry between the two. ...

Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020)

Tai is now a university student, living alone, working hard at school, and working every day, but with his future still undecided. Meanwhile, Matt and others continue to work on Digimon incidents and activities that help people with their partner Digimon. ...

People of the Isono Family ~Ms Sazae 20 years from now~ (2019)

It's 20 years later and the Isono family is having a rough time. Katsuo is facing a series of professional setbacks. Wakame is having a tough time coming up with original designs. Tarao is in the process of job hunting but can't find what he wants to do. S ...

One Night (2019)

A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what happened years ago. ...

Listen to the Universe (2019)

Four pianists take part in the preliminary round of an international piano playing competition. Each has a story that is different and unique. One is a former child prodigy who stopped playing when her mother died. One is a Julliard student. One is a new f ...

The Wonderland (2019)

The story follows Akane, a girl with no self-confidence. On the day before her birthday, she meets a mysterious alchemist, Hippocrates, and his student, Pipo, who both tell her they're on a mission to save the world. Together, they set out from the basemen ...

Shoplifters (2018)

In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows ...

Little Forest: Four Seasons (2018)

In the small Komori village, Ichiko unexpectedly returns from the city and begins a self-sufficient life. From sweet rice drinks on hot summer days to autumn braises, winter dumpling soups, and spring potato salads, she cooks daily with homegrown crops and ...

Chihayafuru: Part III (2018)

Story takes place 2 years after "Chihayafuru Part 2" and Chihaya is now a high school senior. ...

blank13 (2018)

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never returning, deadbeat gambler Masato dies of stomach cancer. At his funeral, a motley crew of fellow mahjong players, pachinko parlor employees and forme ...

Tremble All You Want (2017)

Yoshika has had a crush on Ichimiya, whom she calls "the One" since she was in middle school. Now, a 24-year-old salarywoman, her all-consuming fixation has prevented her from even considering another candidate for boyfriend until an office colleague asks ...

A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)

Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not ...

Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel (2016)

Ash meets the Mythical Pokémon Volcanion when it crashes down from the sky, creating a cloud of dust—and a mysterious force binds the two of them together! Volcanion despises humans and tries to get away, but it's forced to drag Ash along as it continue ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cats Don't Come When You Call (2016)

Mitsuo is a boxer who prefers dogs but ends up looking after two cats that his brother rescues. ...

Nagisa no koibito tachi (2016)

Mr. Love Chemistry 2 (2015)

Despite working as a matchmaker, Sosuke is an awkward person. He works with Shion and they bicker over their different beliefs of love and marriage. ...

Strayer's Chronicle (2015)

In the early 1990s, experiments were carried out secretly in Japan. Two different methods were used in the experiments. One method involved forcing stress upon expecting parents and when the baby was born, provoke the baby into mutations and develop their ...

Samulife (2015)

Nagaoka is a former high school teacher. He decides to start a school with an ideal learning environment. To achieve this goal, he struggles to make money by running a bar and a publishing company. ...

Little Forest: Winter/Spring (2015)

Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think ...

Little Forest: Summer/Autumn (2014)

Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet ...

Houkago Lost (2014)

Little Trip: Chairperson Ayako and Yuki, who sometimes skips school, become close. They run away. Rakugaki Uwagaki: Satomi used to be a member of art club, but she stopped drawing. Due to a cultural festival, she decides to draw again. Baion: Kuroi li ...

Screaming Class (2013)

Kana is an ordinary high school student. One day, her photo is selected for a magazine and, because of this, Kana receives attention from popular student attention Rio. The attention though is not the kind Kana wanted. Kana is bullied by Rio and her friend ...

Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story (2013)

Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan's most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the centenary of Kinoshita's birth, this biographical drama chronicles formative hardships and personal encounters to p ...

Amachan (2013)

Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after ...

Lesson of the Evil (2012)

Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer who concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body. ...

The Kirishima Thing (2012)

A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how his disappearance affects every person in school. ...

Chips (2012)

Tadashi Imamura is a burglar who idolises Ozaki, a star baseball player he shares a birthday with. One day he realises their connection is much deeper than that and decides to find out more. ...

RAFT (2011)

A boy named Shogo landed on the island. He approaches a man making a raft on the beach and tries to help him with the work. The subtle air that flows between the two. They seem to know each other well, but they are also like others. The truth behind a mari ...

Love Exposure (2008)

The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that sh ...