Ryuju Kobayashi

Kisspeptin Chronicles (2025)

Can we ever be freed from the "curse of love" that dictates "women must be pretty and fall in love"? A humorous and at times affecting chronicle of an artistic girl's life and loves from elementary school, through university, into young adulthood. ...

Lonely Glory (2023)

Haruka, a young recognized female entrepreneur, was forced to retire from her company due to the abuse of her authority. For her pride, she attempts to sell her family home and starts her new business, despite her two brothers and a sister living and runni ...

Rageaholic (2022)

Firing The Lighter Gun (2022)

Not far in the future , the second nuclear accident happened in Japan. The Town next to it remains the same. Tatsuya works for the yakuza, Ryo who was in prison, and Mari the sex worker started living together. The misfit, the outcast, trying to survive a ...

Unfeigned Happy Ending (2021)

Eimi, who came to Tokyo after graduating from junior high school, invites her sister Yu, who lives in her hometown of Shiga, to move to Tokyo with her. She is reluctant at first, but suddenly accepts and soon after goes missing. One day Eimi meets Hiyori, ...

Windows (2021)

A young couple has lived together for five years, and they share daily lives even without passion or financial stability. One day, they learn that she's pregnant, and start to consider how to plan their future. ...

A Rainbow-colored Trip (2021)

Director Shinji Imaoka, whose critically acclaimed film "Reiko Iruka" was selected as one of the top ten Japanese films of 2020 by the film magazine "Eiga Geijutsu," presents this musical-style short film set at a rainy campsite, depicting a girl's desire ...

Pain of The Anonymous (2021)

Struggling to find work and entrenched in a personal health crisis, a former middle school teacher accepts a position as an online content moderator. She is faced daily with death, violence, and abuse—and reminders of unspeakable past traumas. As she bec ...

Tokyo Butterfly (2020)

There was a popular band with four students. After the band was offered a major contract, they broke up after a minor mistake. 6 years later, they are living their lives in their late twenties with troubles: Marriage, work, human relationship. They meet ag ...

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (2018)

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection. ...

Gekijō-ban: Hontō ni Atta Kowai Hanashi 2016 (2016)

Film version of the popular horror series "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi", in which horror stories collected from the public are made into films. ...

Someone (2016)

5 university students gather to exchange information on their job search activities. They encourage each other and post their thoughts & worries on Twitter, but behind that they have a lot on their minds. Takuto Ninomiya observes those around him. His roo ...

The Eye's Dream (2016)

Maya is a photographer. She takes photos related to the eyeball. Kunio is a neurosurgeon and an independent documentary film director. He is interested on making a documentary about Maya. A mysterious eyeball collector watches for Maya's own eyeballs. ...

Double Life (2016)

Tama is a graduate student. She lives with her boyfriend Takuya. She becomes influenced by lectures about French writer Sophie Calle and begins to follow her neighbor Ishizaka. Tama soon discovers that her neighbor Ishizaka is having an affair. She becomes ...

Tokyo Sunrise (2015)

Ren struggles with the death of his longtime friend Kaoru. He finds a painting of a girl that Kaoru left behind. Ren sets out on a journey to find the girl. ...

Broken Pieces (2014)

Kaede is fed up with routine chores at her workplace and the relationship with her boyfriend. Her mood brightens when Takuya, with whom she and her brother Ryuta were befriended in childhood, returns to her home town. After reuniting, the friends spend a g ...

Guilty of Romance (2011)

While police investigate a woman found dead in a derelict love hotel, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To escape the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model. Soon, she ...