Movies: 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 time in ages. On the way Haji has an accident, and wakes up to find himself transported back to high sc...

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

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 mysterious "child whisperer" phantom appears before journalist Shunya, who is investigating the incidents, and...

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

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 struggle against the problems in their adolescents....

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

After Isao has reached retirement, he receives a phone call from an ex- elementary school classmate Norio inviting him to a reunion. During the reunion, none of them can claim to have had a wonderful life since graduating from primary school and have...

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 who doesn't communicate well and Haru, a teenage girl who is different, who travels on Route 29, which ...

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

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, Shintani Risa. One day, he was asked out by his childhood friends Eiichi and Mamiko to dig out a time ca...

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 feelings and never smiles. However her interest in a man living in room 202, Mamoru Kosino, leads Yuko into ...

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 alone, has dementia, she returns to her hometown to begin taking care of him....

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Shiba Ryoma, a genius lawyer, cleared the bar exam with the highest score while attending university and became the youngest co-partner at a major law firm. He is valued as a legal advisor to numerous major clients. One day, Shiba meets Haruto, a mys...

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 to have an interview. Going back home by bicycle, Yuto, Sara's boyfriend and also her colleague, told...

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 had a brother. The main character in his new novel, Harumi, drops out of high school and leads a quiet...

Yuri, Moeko, and Ai are best friends from high school. Though their twenties were about to end, they believed their eternal world would remain forever. In spite of their will, some misfortunate events such as love, betrayal, memory, regret, and one b...

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. However, she has been unable to confess her true feelings. Another worry for Haruno is the rumor that her c...

A lonely accountant adjusting to big city life, a struggling manga artist forced to conclude her series and a millennial convenience store clerk without direction; three women decades apart all bound by one inescapable fate....

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 that he is of African descent and therefore must have AIDS. Unsure of how to address these prejudices...