Takao Handa

Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody (2019)

Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plant decommissioning work. Kokuhei Kusunoki is transferred from Aizu Wakamatsu City to Naraho Town to take over the Disaster PR Division. Murai takes Kokuhei a ...

Caesium and the Girl (2015)

Mimi-chan is a 17-year-old high school student and she lives with her parents in Asagaya, Tokyo. While walking home from school, Mimi-chan is hit by a lightning and meets Raijin Ra San (God of Lightning). Through Raijin Ra San, she also meets 7 other Gods. ...

The Lightning Tree (2010)

Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning at one time with the broken part eventually sprouting out cherry blossoms). The young woman lived freely in ...

Norwegian Wood (2010)

Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori. ...

Dumbeast (2009)

How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 Kunio Kishida-winning stage play Donju (a.k.a. Dumb Animal) to the big screen in all its wacky tragicomedic glory. The one and only Asano Tadanobu sports a s ...

The Handsome Suit (2008)

An overweight cook is given the opportunity to woo the girl of his dreams when he is given a "handsome suit" that transforms him into an idealized human being in this absurd Japanese comedy. ...

Cain's Descendant (2007)

Munakata has an unrelenting guilt from killing his mother when he was 15 years old. After being imprisoned for 10 years, he is released and heads to Yako, a small industrial town, to work as a machinist. Living in a tiny apartment, he is tasked with secret ...

Invisible War (2007)

Kitahara Shuji, an ordinary business man turns into a spy for his town's war against a neighboring town in a Dystopian society. ...

Aogeba Tôtoshi (2006)

Mortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is also grappling with the issue of mortality as he deals with the impending death of his ailing father, who has de ...

Cop Festival: New Beginning (2003)

Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films. ...

The Choice of Hercules (2002)

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had t ...

Smap Short Films (2001)

Short films by top CM directors and CG creators: MUSIC POWER GO! GO! ダモン君の巻; BUS PANIC!!!; GAME SHINGO; 治療; Good-bye, cruel world; ROLLING BOMBER SPECIAL; 菅原さん ・コンセント ・トイレ ・のれない ・脱出不可能. ...

OL sei-hakusho kusare-en (2000)

Lustful Wife (1999)

A disappointed married woman who was told by a doctor that she could not have children. Her husband drowned in affair with a young woman while treating her gently. She felt uneasy about unfortunate circumstances and aging, but she was confused about her hu ...

Anarchy in Japansuke (1999)

A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shoplift fro ...

Slow Motion (1996)

A young man living in a provincial city falls in love with a stripper. Due to his innate shame, he is unable to express his feelings, and his pent-up emotions end up manifesting in the despicable form of betrayal of his friend. ...

Indecent Peeping: A Woman Who Wants to Be Seen (1996)

Nakamoto, who works at a real estate agency, enters a vacant apartment without permission and begins to peep into it. By chance, he finds an apartment building where a TV reporter lives, and eventually starts playing pranks on the phone. One day, the woman ...

Blissful Genuine Sex: Penetration! (1995)

Shuji, an unemployed young man, has been living a haphazard and lethargic life, cheating on his wife with his girlfriends and constantly asking his best friend for loans. Then one day, Shuji takes a train and arrives at a country town. There, he meets Sach ...