Tasuku Emoto

The story is about a film director, Kutani, who lives in the dying pink film industry, and an aspiring screenwriter, Iseki, and their loved one, ...

When a bored cafe worker starts learning about erotic prints from a widowed shunga researcher, she gets drawn into a world free of inhibitions.

A man forced to bear power and stripped of humanity. A woman skeptical of happiness. Takeshi Hongo, an Augmentation made by SHOCKER, and Ruriko ...

Six high schoolers stuck in a murderous time loop must find the scattered remains of an unknown victim to break the curse and finally see another day.

Michiko used to work as a live-in part-timer at an izakaya, but suddenly lost her job and her house at the same time due to COVID-19 pandemic. ...

A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and inseparable friends as their larger-than-life ...

Hitomi Saito has been climbing the ranks for years and is set to direct an anime series for the first time, while brilliant director Chiharu Oji ...

I is a university, who came to Tokyo from his hometown. I lives alone and doesn’t have friends or a girlfriend. I’s university life ...

A lonely young man moves in a 50-year-old apartment building. When he meets the cheerful residents, he finds himself surrounded by small happiness.

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. ...

Two outsider college students set up a secret society circle, “Moai,” which aims to change the world. But one day, one of them disappears.

A married woman with a lovely daughter lives a carefree life, until she meets her ex-lover at a friend’s wedding. They haven’t seen each other in ...

When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, ...

It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world’s biggest and most formidable ...

Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in the tragic death of two of his best friends ...

The acting family, the Emotos, are the subject of this documentary following Emoto Akira and his sons.

Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his cat Tama. Daikichi was born and raised on ...

With a contagious sense of abandon, three young adults’ lives become intimately entangled over the course of a long summer in Hakodate, Hokkaido.

When Suei was little, his mother had an affair with a young man who lived next door. Suei’s mother and the young man killed themselves by ...

A detective in Toyama is forced to confront his painful past when he takes on a murder case involving his two estranged childhood friends.

Seiji is a third generation “Gosei kai” gang member. He works to build up the group’s strength. Meanwhile, a journalist ...

Shino Umemiya readily dates guys interested in her, because she believes that’s better than being alone. She breaks up with her violent ...

Shuji Tokita (Eiji Okuda) is a film director and a professor at a university. He goes through a difficult time trying to film his new movie. He ...

Haruo has a dream to become the best magician, but, so far, he is only a marginal magician. Haruo also doesn’t have parents. He then goes ...

In this love story set in the Edo period, 27-year-old Oharu is a genius in the kitchen. Oharu attracts the attention of the master chef of the ...

Kyoko (Sakura Ando) works as an insurance agent. Due to a series of unfortunate events, she brings shame to her family and has to leave her ...

A lonely otaku is fired from his job. He is rescued in a ruined building by a strange girl in a sailor suit. When he wakes up, the girl becomes a ...

While inspecting a wharf, young Amano, president of an urban planning company, meets beautiful laborer Takako and falls in love at first sight. ...

Beauty in the eyes of 4 filmmakers. Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Beautiful New Bay Area Project finds it in a kung-fu fighting young woman with a ...