Takuma Watanabe

Cloud (2024)

Ryōsuke Yoshii, an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle. ...

Desert of Namibia (2024)

A young, temperamental Tokyo beautician struggles to navigate her relationships with lovers, friends, and family. ...

Chime (2024)

A chef's life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread. ...

Whale Bones (2023)

Recently dumped by his fiancée, Mamiya meets a girl on a dating app. However, when he comes out of the shower, the girl is dead on his bed. Upset Mamiya decides to bury the body in the woods, however it mysteriously disappears from his car trunk... When h ...

#Manhole (2023)

Kawamura is a promising young man with everything going for him. On the eve of his wedding, he falls into a deep manhole. Despite sustaining a debilitating injury, he is determined to attend his wedding as planned, and resorts to social networks for help. ...

Yes, I Can't Swim (2022)

Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can't swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between water and people, still he decides on the spur of the moment to enroll in a swimming class. There he encounters the ...

Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me? (2021)

Sawako works as a manga writer. Her husband of five years, Toshio is also a manga writer. On a summer day, Sawako begins to write her new manga. The story for her new manga deals with adultery. The manga describes Toshio having an affair with her editor an ...

Ito (2021)

A shy country girl chooses a part-time job at a maid cafe where she serves customers while dressed up as a maid. ...

Aristocrats (2021)

Hanako is looking for stability with her man. She gets dumped instead. She begins dating. Miki studied and worked hard to get to where she is and is holding down a job. They are introduced through an intermediary man. ...

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 ...

Ghost Master (2019)

Akira Kurosawa is a nerdy movie buff who works on low budget romantic comedies while dreaming of becoming a horror master. After being abused by his mentor, "the master" he finally decides he's had enough and opens a door allowing an evil spirit to wreak r ...

Erica 38 (2019)

Satoko Watabe, who calls herself Erica was organizing business support meetings, and collecting a fortune with a fictional investment story, under the order of her lover Ikuo Hirasawa. But she finds out that Hirasawa was actually dating multiple women and ...

A Beautiful Star (2017)

A family believes they are aliens from other planets and tries to save Earth from impending calamity. ...

Rolling (2015)

Kanichi works at wet tissue company in Mito, Japan. He runs into Gondo. 10 years ago, Gondo was fired from his job as a teacher for secretly filming others. He is now with Mihari who works as a hostess. He took away her away from Tokyo. Kanichi falls in lo ...

Origin of the Dreams (2015)

Similar But Different (2013)

A man and a woman share the same time and same space. One day in the morning, they go their separate ways. The woman meets her old friend, but she looks annoyed. The man also meets his old friend again, but his thoughts are somewhere else. ...

Shadow of Sand (2008)

"Shadow of Sand" - Set in Tokyo in the 1980's. Yukie, a young woman lives with the vision of the lover she has murdered. After his death he continues to appear in her room. Yukie maintains her usual life, trying to avoid discovery of her crime until a new ...

Konna otona no onnanoko (2007)

Based on the comic book by Marie Abiko. ...