Ryuji Otsuka

Stonewalling (2024)

20 year-old Lynn is told she needs English classes, flight attendant school, and a go getter-attitude. She perseveres along this path of upward mobility until she finds out she's pregnant. Indecisive and running out of time, she tells her boyfriend she's h ...

video chat party (2020)

In the later stages of the epidemic, a young couple who constantly argued over work, a partner who had a conflict, a friend who didn't show up for a long time, their video chats were interwoven and recorded on a computer screen with anxiety, boredom, and h ...

Damp Season (2020)

A young couple grows apart, throwing themselves into the arms of others. ...

A Family Tour (2018)

A mainland Chinese filmmaker, exiled to Hong Kong for her politically-charged work, reunites with her mother on a trip to Taiwan. ...

I Have Nothing to Say (2017)

The Chinese police visit head-teacher Chen at home. Her daughter, a dissident filmmaker living in Hong Kong, plans yet another critical film about China's colonization of the small autonomous territory. The authorities demand that Chen travel to her daught ...

The Foolish Bird (2017)

Lynn lives with her grandparents in Meicheng, a small Hunanese city unsettled by an ongoing rape-murder investigation. With little structure to regulate her life outside of school, where she is bullied, Lynn begins smuggling and reselling confiscated mobil ...

A Sunny Day (2016)

Hong Kong, at the height of the protests. A young woman visits her father, whom she has not seen for a while. Her plan is to have lunch with him before the Umbrella Movement reaches a critical juncture. Celebrated, committed filmmaker Ying Liang contribut ...

Beijing Ants (2013)

Ryuji Otsuka and Huang Ji are the 'main characters' in this very personal homemade documentary that's funny, angry, scary and stirring all at once. He's the Japanese director of the film; she's his wife and a prizewinning filmmaker in her own right. For in ...

Trace (2013)

When Night Falls (2012)

The mother of a murderer awaits and prepares to meet her son. The true story of a man who killed six Shanghai policemen after suffering police beatings as a punishment for riding an unlicensed bicycle. This film was produced as a part of the Jeonju Digital ...

Egg and Stone (2012)

14-year-old Honggui is forced to live with her uncle and aunt in the countryside. She is not wanted by them, nor was she wanted by her parents, who apparently intended to farm her out to family for two years so they could work in the city. Years pass. When ...

Judge (2010)

In a small northern Chinese city in 1997, Judge Tian privately struggles with the loss of his daughter, killed by a stolen car in a hit-and-run accident. On the bench he encounters Qiuwu, a mechanic accused of stealing two cars. Perhaps influenced by his e ...

The Warmth Of Orange Peel (2010)

Lin Sen lives with her father in a tiny village in China. This twelve-year-old girl has begun to notice a change in her relationship with her father. But Li Sen isn't sure if this has something to do with her new-found knowledge of puberty and sexuality or ...

Beijing Ants (2013)

Ryuji Otsuka and Huang Ji are the 'main characters' in this very personal homemade documentary that's funny, angry, scary and stirring all at once. He's the Japanese director of the film; she's his wife and a prizewinning filmmaker in her own right. For in ...