Makiko Watanabe Movies

Momi’s House is a facility to support self-reliance of young people with problems. The facility is run by Yasutoshi (Naoto Ogata) and his wife...

Kohei and Akira are a couple running away together without a destination. They meet a geology researcher namend Shiraki on the way and the three...

Film directed by Yoshitaka Kamada.

This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers.

Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside school non-existent. But when both girls are drawn to...

Three girls - Miwa, an introvert who's best friend is her turtle, Saori, a rich girl from a celebrity family, and Koyuzu, a member of a revenge...

In the summer of 1963, flats of modern construction begin to be built in the slums where vagrants and women of the night gather. The city hall's plan...

Mika (Marie Ono), a Japanese-American woman, returns to her native Saitama hometown and becomes a therapist for a "nemuriba" ("a place to sleep").

Near-future Tokyo. Kou, through the help of his high school best friend, finds a surprising way to express his mounting frustration at the insidious...

Four short films produced without a director

About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him

Fate brings a man and woman together in Lyon, France. They fall in love, but time is set to run out on them ...

Sanae is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her mother and six-year-old sister. She has not recently been able to be open with her fisherman...

Another psychodrama, this time revolving around an SM club.

A filmmaker is constantly on the move after recently ending a relationship. As she travels alone between Beijing, Nanjing, Hong Kong and Japan, she...

Hinako comes across the novel “Tamaran Hill” and immediately starts reading it with delight, as “tamaran” (intolerable)...

Satoshi learns his estranged mother has six months to live. They must reunite for one last farewell. A short film from the "Short Trial Project...

A 2001 Japanese language film directed by Shinji Aoyama, starring Hidetoshi Nishijima. The film screened at Locarno International Film Festival in...