Rio Kanno

True Beauty: The Movie - Part 2 (2025)

Reina's beauty and dreams dazzle, but her bare face exposes hidden truths as Shun and Yu vie for her heart, stirring tension and racing emotions. ...

Grown-ups (2021)

Yumi (Mai Kiryu), studying design at university, is dating Naoya (Kisetsu Fujiwara), a member of the theatre society, when one day she learns that she's pregnant. She tells Naoya, who dreams of owning his own theatre company in the future. The more they fa ...

Hell's Garden (2021)

Naoko Tanaka is a 26-year-old office lady (OL). Her job is typical, but her workplace has fierce fights among different cliques. Other OLs are absorbed in the daily clique fighting. One day, due to an OL at the company, Naoko Tanaka's company is targeted b ...

One Cut in the Life (2020)

A rampage at a university, the students Yuka and Mai are frozen with fear. At gunpoint, the two perpetrators try to force them to decide which of them must die next. In a moment of distraction, Mai tries to escape but is badly injured by a shot in the back ...

The Town of Headcounts (2020)

Pursued by loan sharks, Aoyama is rescued by a mysterious man in orange overalls, and spirited away to "The Town," where other dropouts hide out from debtors, abusive partners or the police. It's a perpetual holiday resort where every need is catered to bu ...

RUN!-3films- (2019)

Lenses on Her Heart (2018)

Akemi is unable to get over the death of his girlfriend, but a book leads to his encounter with Akane, a woman with a wonderful smile. He gradually falls for Akane, who soothes him with her positive outlook and cheerful disposition, but Akane has a boyfrie ...

Stray Dogz 2 (2016)

Tadaomy works as a loan shark. He hires Tukasa to work for him. One day, Tadaomy's debtor, Okabayashi, asks to borrow two million yen more. Tadaomy trusts Okabayashi who has payed back sincerely, but Okabayashi suddenly disappears. ...

A Cold (2014)

One late summer day, Yuko catches a cold and misses school. She waits for someone in an unfamiliar neighborhood until sunset. ...

Sacrifice Dilemma: Second Part (2013)

A high school graduating class is forced into a sadistic game threatening certain death to all unless they offer one of their own as sacrifice. ...

Sacrifice Dilemma: Last Part (2013)

In the final act, the students agonize over their seemingly inevitable fate as they try to figure out why they've been trapped in this gruesome game. ...

Sacrifice Dilemma (2013)

It's graduation day. Junichi Shinohara shows up at school following a prolonged absence, to find a gigantic "pit" dug in the middle of the campus and all his classmates gathered in the classroom. Then, a strange message comes over the PA system. "In one ho ...

When I Kill Myself (2011)

Due to the high suicide rate among youths in Japan, the government implements experiments to uncover the causes behind the high suicide rate. Children are selected and placed in a YSC facility under constant surveillance. At the age of 10, the children are ...

I Love Thee for Good (2009)

While the wedding day should be blissful for the bride, Eiko, there is a secret that she can't tell her fiance... ...

Ten Nights of Dreams (2007)

Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, t ...

Ichiban kirei na mizu (2006)

The story is a variation on the Tom Hanks classic "Big," but instead of a boy finding himself in a man's body, a sick girl falls asleep one day and does not wake up again for 11 years. In the meantime, her baby sister, Natsumi (Rio Kanno), grows up to beco ...

Noroi: The Curse (2005)

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon. ...

Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king. ...

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004)

While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days. ...

Dark Water (2002)

A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak. ...