Yoshihiko Hosoda

Tenement (2024)

Following her mother's death, manga artist Soriya travels to her ancestral home in Phnom Penh, with hopes of reconnecting with her distant family and using the visit as inspiration for her work. All goes well initially. Renting an apartment in Metta, a run ...

Blue Imagine (2024)

In the wake of a sexual assault, young actress Noel goes to Blue Imagine, a refuge for people who have experienced violence. With the help of her fellow residents, she is able to reclaim some of her confidence, and decides to confront her abuser. ...

Hitch Hike (2023)

University students Ryoko and Akane get lost on a mountain road on their way home from a hike. They finally reach a bus stop, but there is no sign of a bus coming. Furthermore, Ryoko has an injured leg, and Akane's boyfriend is at a drinking party and cann ...

My Brother, the Alien (2023)

Four siblings are shocked to learn their adopted brother is actually a visiting alien and his time on earth is soon coming to an end. Will they be able to cope with his departure and also save the family yakiniku restaurant? ...

About the Evil Woman (2023)

Go Away, Moebius!! (2023)

A coming of age story about a young woman who decides to follow the dream she had once abandoned. ...

Ichigeki (2023)

The drama depicts the exploits of the "Ichigeki Hishikkitai", a special combat unit formed by farmers to deal with the "Imperial Robbers" and the "Imperial Thieves" of the Satsuma Clan who were causing a stir in Edo at the end of the Edo period. ...

Tell Me (2022)

On May 2, 1998, Hide, a leading Japanese rock musician who had been active as a guitarist for X JAPAN and as a solo artist (hide with Spread Beaver/zilch), suddenly passed away. His funeral was attended by about 50,000 people and became a social phenomenon ...

The Love of a Brute (2022)

Heartbroken Kyoko (Usamaru Manami) meets and marries Kadono (Hosoda Yoshihiko) on a matching app. Kyoko is happy with her life with the kind and handsome Kadono, but she gradually begins to suspect that her husband is in love with another woman. She asks d ...

at the lakeside (2022)

A short film by Kana Yamada. ...

Surrogacy (2021)

Tamaki who becomes a surrogate mother for the sake of her elder brother, Satoshi, who is gay by going through artificial insemination using his partner Keito's sperm with her egg and the siblings wanting to reveal the truth to their parents after her pregn ...

The Full-Time Wife Escapist: New Year's Special (2021)

Mikuri and Hiramasa both work and share housework duties. They have peaceful days together. One day, Mikuri learns that she is pregnant. They decide to marry, but they soon face problems. Mikuri suffers from pregnancy sickness and Hiramasa decides to take ...

Labyrinth of Cinema (2020)

When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen. ...

Care Nin 2: The Flower in Your Heart (2020)

Kei Omori is a caregiver who has left his previous job at a small-scale care service to come work at a large-scale nursing home. But he is unable to hide his tremendous discomfort with a management style that prioritizes efficiency and risk control in the ...

Musashi (2019)

Musashi returns Japan's legendary swordsman and philosopher to the screen once again. In an original period drama based on the historical facts of the life and travels of the famous Miyamoto Musashi we find an apprentice, an instructor and the account of a ...

The Peers (2019)

This human drama depicts the challenges of an ageing society and gives the limelight to some of the hardest working people in society, care workers and medical professionals. ...

21st Century Girl (2019)

21st Century Girl is an omnibus feature that is of the girls, by the girls and for the girls. The work of 15 women directors under the age of 30, each of whom contributed an 8-minute film, the package highlights a range of genres, visions and thematic conc ...

The Scythian Lamb (2018)

Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, where 6 former criminals were sent to live there by the government, with the intention of re-socialising them. Aside from the few who know about the project, ...

Omokage (2017)

Ei Daisuke always carrying an army knife and was good at peeling fruit. His friends heard stories that Sakae got married to the only daughter of a farmer. The memories of middle and high school will come away in the heart of childhood friend Yumi Nakamura ...

Lowlife Love (2016)

Tetsuo is a lowlife. A film director with a small indie hit many years back, yet he has never gotten any further as he refuses to go against his 'artistic integrity'. ...

Ultraman X The Movie: Here He Comes! Our Ultraman (2016)

When realty TV host Carlos Kurozaki breaks into a mysterious underground pyramid for a television event, he removes a special gem. . . and unwittingly releases a diabolical monster called Zaigorg! The evil creature wants Kurozaki's gem, so it spawns an arm ...

必殺仕事人2015 (2015)

Prophecy (2015)

The cyber crime investigation division at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department finds a video on website "YOURTUBE." In the video, a man covered by a newspaper, warns that a fire will be set at a food processing company. More crime notices are soon foun ...

The Terminal Trust (2012)

Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, Shinzo Egi asks his doctor Ayano Orii if she could follow his wish. Doctor Ayano Orii is then questioned in a criminal case because of her decision. ...

Badboys (2011)

In the 1970s, director Fukasaku Kinji's Yakuza Papers films chronicled decades of gang warfare in post-war Hiroshima. Over three decades later, up-and-coming young director Kubata Takashi brings a new generation of Hiroshima motorcycle gangsters to the big ...

The Lady Shogun and Her Men (2010)

In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant members of ...

I Give My First Love to You (2009)

Takuma knows that his life is shorter than the others and he feels that his demise is getting near. He chose to stay away from the girl that he loves so that she can easily move on. What he didn't know is that he is under-estimating her. ...

Detroit Metal City (2008)

Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up "demon emperor" Johannes ...

Tea Fight (2008)

A descendant of an ancient tea tribe heads to Taiwan to look for the legendary black tea to break the curse of a tribal rivalry. Meanwhile, in an "underground tea market" somewhere in Taiwan that sells rare expensive tea from around the world, tribe member ...

CLEARNESS (2008)

Sakura is a 20-year-old college student who has sex for money to fund her shopping addiction. After her customers leave her apartment, she spends her time spying on Leo, a young, beautiful, and (dyed) blond-haired boy, who works at a male escort service ac ...

Tales of Terror: Cow Woman (2007)

The cow woman is believed to be the sign of a huge catastrophe that is about to occur. It is said that she dies when the catastrophe is over. In some regions, the cow woman is worshiped as a prophet who warns of future misfortune. Asuka, who has joined a t ...

Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky (2007)

A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meets there a feisty local girl Ofumi who befriends him as he sets up his shop, Kyo-ya and in spite of the difficulties stemming from cultural differences betwe ...

Island Times (2007)

Fifteen-year-old Masaharu lives on the small island of Aogashima, which has a population of 197. On the island, life is simple and facilities are spare. As there are no high schools on the island, Masaharu, in his final year of junior high, will be leaving ...

Once Again Sugar & Spice: Case 3 (2006)

Case 3 tells the story of Mika, a young woman who after being cheated on gives up on falling in love ever again. However, Yuta, a coworker at her new part-time job beings to make Mika rethink her decision. ...

Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment (2005)

Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not as they seem. ...