Aoba Kawai Movies

Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Issey Takahashi

While the wedding day should be blissful for the bride, Eiko, there is a secret that she can’t tell her fiance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoba Kawai

Haji is an actor on the cusp of turning 40, who has gotten stuck in life. At the invitation of an old friend, he visits his hometown for the first...

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Cast: Jun Murakami

Miyamura is quiet and keeps to himself, and honors student Kyoko is cheerful and popular. They are polar opposites but both have a secret persona...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ouji Suzuka

Sara is 21 years old and works at a family restaurant. She wasn't able to hide her upset at first sight when Takeuchi came to the family restaurant...

Genre: Family

Cast: Aoba Kawai

MARU runs around Tokyo.MARU hears from his fellow messenger HIDE that he might be leaving Tokyo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayumu Nakajima

Yuko Yajima works at a library. To her co-workers she appears as an extremely shy and introverted person who hardly lets anyone know her true...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaru Engo

Asai Takuma is a fourth year college student who is having a hard time finding a job and is desperate for the sake of his future with girlfriend,...

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Cast: Hayato Sano

Akiko (Mai Fukagawa) is a former idol, but now lives an ordinary life. She works at a company and keeps reminding herself that she is happy and to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mai Fukagawa

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Sei Ashina

Genre: Romance

Cast: Elisa Yanagi

Despite the fact that Kyoko's a girl herself, approaching women on the streets and asking them to pose nude for her proves to be quite a chore. At...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinuo Yamada

Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tori Matsuzaka

This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shota Sometani

A young man moves from the countryside to Tokyo, while experiencing hardships and happiness, in his pursuit to become a comics artist.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yoshio Inoue

As a young child, Hana loses her family to a devastating tsunami that wipes out her town. At a shelter, distant relative Jungo sees her wandering and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

A drug-addicted girl from an abusive family finds hope through kind people but her grim reality strikes back just as she sees a glimmer of light.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuumi Kawai

After Isao has reached retirement, he receives a phone call from an ex- elementary school classmate Norio inviting him to a reunion. During the...

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Cast: Masachika Ichimura

A young couple’s announcement of their engagement to their friends is followed by a series of interactions and conflicts that forces everyone...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoba Kawai

After his parents die, a teenager goes to live with his older brother. As his loneliness grows, he becomes engrossed in practicing modern dance with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shota Sometani

A lonely accountant adjusting to big city life, a struggling manga artist forced to conclude her series and a millennial convenience store clerk...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayano Washizu

Chisako Satoya, a writer, and her father, Kozo, had a long-standing feud and had been living apart for a long time. However now that Kozo, who lives...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Watanabe

Tama is a graduate student. She lives with her boyfriend Takuya. She becomes influenced by lectures about French writer Sophie Calle and begins to...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mugi Kadowaki

The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi

Haruno, a second-year high school student, is aiming to go to a national university as her parents wish, but she really wants to be a groomer....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mizuki Yoshida

Adapted from a book of poems by poet Taichi Nakao, the film is a road story set in beautiful nature and tranquil landscapes about a lonely janitor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruka Ayase

A countryside in 1988. Shun is crazy about fooling around with his best friends. Facing up with their family environment or bullying in school, they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiya Ikegawa

Hasegawa is writing a sequel to his previous novel, based on a true character who murdered 9 people on the street, with the premise that the killer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Nakaizumi

Dumped, fired from her job, Reon’s day couldn't get any worse. Then a freak accident causes her to swap bodies with her old company’s...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kang Ji-young

Yuri, Moeko, and Ai are best friends from high school. Though their twenties were about to end, they believed their eternal world would remain...

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Cast: Nami Komiyama

Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaki Suda

Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaki Suda

Living in Tokyo, Keisuke Fujii never really considered the colour of his skin; but when he and his mother move to rural Japan, the other kids assume...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dadie T

Iwao Shishido has found a wife. After paying three million yen for a bridal tour to the Philippines, he comes home with Irene, who is promptly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Yasuda

A suburban town is faced with a series of bizarre incidents in which children disappear and three days later an adult in their life dies. A...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Hideaki Takizawa

A failed director is trying to get his next movie off the ground, while dealing with his cranky brother and his estranged wife.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyohiko Shibukawa

An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kotone Furukawa

A married woman obsesses over a hairstylist she becomes involved with.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Tokiwa

Ai has had a crush forever on her classmate Tatoe. When she finds out that Tatoe is in a secret relationship with another girl, she sets out to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Yamada