Makiko Watanabe Movies

The slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend.

A documentary showcasing the making of Sion Sono's Himizu

Nana is 19 and lives in a corner of Tokyo. Her birth mother and Marin, a girl the same age who she loves, were the only people she could trust. Nana...

Tamio Akanishi works at a public office in Yokohama. He is going through one of the worst periods of his life, having been left by his...

Sensitive and refined drama in which experiences from the puberty of a female teacher and a piano student reflected in the world of the younger...

Professional killer Ken is trying to break away from the yakuza. Taking up work at a local motorcycle shop, he forges a new life under the motherly...

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark

Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying...

Comedy about a woman who finds a new life after she loses her busband.

A young female founder runs in to societal barriers during her drive to create startup projects, in a Japanese society that hasn't traditionally...

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

A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, featuring...

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...

A troubled teenager only lives through her camera and the Internet. Fascinated by science, she experiments on various animals, and her own mother,...

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...

Following the 2011 tsunami, three women reunite in the family home only to rekindle tense, ruinous relationships.

A widower who’s daughter has been murdered at high school meets the mother of the murderer by coincidence after moving to a small town in...

A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress.