Eri Watanabe Movies

Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a deep...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Takenaka

The drama is based on a true story of Yamaguchi Hayato (25), a young man who learns he has a rare illness known as CIDP, which affects the nervous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Matsumoto

A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near...

Genre: Music

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mone Kamishiraishi

In a small town of Hokkaido, Yunni, Fusako Kurokawa (Saki Takaoka), lives a quiet life with her father. Life here is very simple, but it is good...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saki Takaoka

A man's soul (he is in a coma) must make a lonely woman happy or he will die on Christmas day.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiaki Karasawa

Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yuya Uchida

A diver on the university team must decide which of her two childhood friends she loves, and they're both on the swim team. High school diver Ami...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masami Nagasawa

Rieko Sugita, a young and beautiful hairdresser who happens to visit a bedding shop owned by Yoshitaro (Emoto) and the latter becomes so besotted...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Machiko Ono

Takayuki (Takao Osawa) is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet's syndrome, and will gradually lose his sight. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takao Osawa

First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

A series of short stories all about dogs.

Genre: Family

Cast: Shido Nakamura

He is rejected by his sister when the brother floats the idea that their father move from his house to her apartment. The father has other ideas...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Juri Ueno

Two married couples struggle to cope with their sex lives. Kenji and Misaki, a seemingly happy married couple, lead a sexless life. Misaki, whose...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Tachi

Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Koichi Sato

Mary Smith, a young girl who lives with her great-aunt in the countryside, follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest where she finds a strange...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Yuki Amami

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on....

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi

Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie theater. A young man aspires to become a benshi, a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryo Narita

A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former boyfriend's son appears in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shinobu Otake

A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki decides to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fumiyo Kohinata

A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the school's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Juri Ueno

Maiko is a 17 year old aspiring picture book writer who was abandoned by her widowed father at the age of 3 and has lived in a foster home ever...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rika Ishikawa

After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Watanabe

The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese...

Genre: History

Cast: Takuro Atsuki

It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband and wife no questions asked. All is well then....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yu Aoi

Barbara is an adult-orientated fantasy tale filled with love and the occult from Osamu Tezuka's reimagining of "The Tales of Hoffmann". Its story...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Goro Inagaki

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Tamori

Shohei Taguchi is a salaryman who works for a securities company and loves women like no other. One day, he plans to use the cash borrowed from the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sanma Akashiya

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Takehiro Murata

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind...

Genre: Action

Cast: Haruka Ayase

Three outsiders meet by chance and try to chase their dreams despite all odds. However, things take a dramatic turn when they run into trouble with...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kyôhei Shibata

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Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Non