Takashi Okabe

A New Dawn (2026)

Keitaro lives in a fireworks factory that is about to be shut down. He is determined to unravel the mystery of the Shuhari, a mythical firework created by his father before he disappeared without a trace – and launch it before the factory closes. ...

5 Centimeters per Second (2025)

Spring 1991. Takaki and Akari meet in elementary school and continue to exchange letters even after she moves away. They make a final promise to each other to meet again. It is now 2008. They live their respective lives, paths never crossing. Enduring memo ...

Manga Ka Hori Mamoru (2024)

In Love and Deep Water (2023)

On a massive luxury cruise ship while at sea, the loyal butler and a mysterious woman cross paths as they try to uncover a murder-mystery that occurs on the ship. ...

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 ...

Blue Rondo (2022)

Bldg. N (2022)

Urban legend horror film based on the true story of the "Ghost Apartment Incident" that occurred in Gifu Prefecture's Tomika Town in 2000. ...

The Man Who Can't Defraud (2022)

Sakai plays an extremely good-natured businessman. When he attends a marriage activity party in an attempt to start a happy family, he meets a swindler played by Mugi Kadowaki, and ends up being a part of the scam. ...

Mata koko ka (2021)

This play is set at a gas station service station. While the manager, Chikasugi, and a part-time worker, Takarai, are having an incomprehensible conversation, a novelist, Nemori, comes to visit, accompanied by a nurse, Shimeno. Nemori tells Chikasugi that ...

Character (2021)

A kind man aspires to become a manga writer, but villains and evil deeds do not come easily to him, for he has little experience or natural inclination for them. Things take a surprise turn when he comes across a family who were described as idealized that ...

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet (2021)

Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship over five years. ...

Soiree (2020)

Shota came to Tokyo to become an actor but has a side hustle in petty crime. On a trip back to his hometown in Wakayama he meets Takara, who is being assaulted by her father just sprung from prison. Soon they pair up and hit the road to escape. ...

Switch (2020)

Prosecutor Komazuki Nao from the Yokohama District Public Prosecutors Office's Minato Mirai branch and lawyer Tsutaya Madoka (Matsu Takako) from the law firm Yokohama Gold dated for seven years since the time they were in school. Even after they broke up, ...

Discord (2020)

Based on the novel by Daimon Takeaki about brothers who were separated after the death of their father and reunited as police detective and prosecutor. ...

A Stranger in Shanghai (2019)

China is tumultuous in 1921 when the famed Japanese author of "Rashōmon", Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, visits Shanghai as a correspondent. ...

Sunny: Our Hearts Beat Together (2018)

A group of friends from high school days reunite for once more time before one of them dies from cancer. ...

At the Terrace (2016)

A gaunt, middle-aged man barely recovered from a serious illness, an awkward company employee, the hosts' likable son, who comes home late — each of the men on the terrace are captivated by Haruko's pale, white arms, inflaming the jealousy of the company ...

Bakuman (2015)

Moritaka Mashiro doesn't want to follow in the path of his uncle who worked as a manga artist, but ultimately died because of exhaustion. Moritaka Mashiro figures he will graduate from school and work at an office. Things change though when falls in love w ...

Snow Woman (2009)

A woman with the constitution of orgasmic death: She dies in orgasm but always comes back to life! A group of people carries a casket in the mountains covered with deep snow. Inside is a beautiful woman who was found dead that same morning. The people bel ...