Movies: Mitsuru Hirata

After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact revenge....

After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home....

On Mihama, one of Tokyo's outlying islands, Shinji witnesses the rape of his girlfriend and middle-school classmate, Haruka, then commits an irreversible crime. But the following day, the island is besieged by a tidal wave which wipes out everything....

An aspiring floral designer and the photographer next door become drawn to each other through the everyday sounds they hear through their shared walls....

Based on the novel of the same name by Kenzo Kitakata....

Adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's novel....

Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown....

Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest....

Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a prodigious ability to play any piece of music after one hearing. Keisuke Kisaragi whose career was abrup...

Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her...

Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu"....

Six young pilots who all volunteered to be Kami-kaze or suicide pilots....

A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs....

Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, something that normally would not be done at this hospital, he quickly gains a very good reputation amongst the...

Amamoto travels from his small village to Osaka to find his estranged daughter. When he meets a friendly young woman, she gives him a unique guide of the big city and helps him in his search....

A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son....

Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon her return, Barbara faces problems beyond her control. Her brother and two friends take one of their te...

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

Shinku is a compelling drama that focuses on the strange relationship that develops between two people who find their lives irrevocably changed as a result of a horrible multiple homicide. The first person traumatized is the lone survivor of the terr...

Police coroner Kuraishi Yoshio (Masaaki Uchino) and the crime lab team attempt to solve a serial murder case with a killer who seems to kill indiscriminately....