Movies: Ayaka Maeda

Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives....

Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not as they seem....

In 1970s-era Japan, three children, Kazuma Kiryu, Akira Nishikiyama, and his younger sister, Yuko Nishikiyama, are raised together in Shintaro Kazama's Sunflower Orphanage. In the summer of 1980, Yumi Sawamura, a young girl whose parents were acciden...

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the re...

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Sayuru is an ordinary teenage girl. But one day everything changes when she learns that she apparently died. Even though she is dead, she is still in the mind and wandering around at home on days like a ghost. But her family is ready to do anything t...

A girl named Ai gets a major record deal to sing a song written by a friend of hers who is deceased. However an obsessed stalker fan slowly starts becoming more like her and tearing her world apart....

After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual....

Yuri and Takumi are brother and sister who faced unusually harsh treatment by their father. An act of brutality keeps them extremely close together until an older couple occupy the house where their secret was buried....

Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs....

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....

A youth drama in which a young man visiting Busan, South Korea falls in love with a Japanese woman. Debut film directed by Masaharu Take....

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Each time Lulu is heartbroken small stones come out of her body. The doctor tells Lulu they are kidney stones. She collects them in memoriam of love....

One day, when three guys and one girl wake up in the morning, they're all in a small room filled with the white powder, naked. Why were they gathered? What does this room mean? Who brought them here? How to escape from it?...

Kyoko is an aspiring writer whose artistic vision is yet to be formed. When her girlfriend Rie asks her to move in with her, Kyoko begins to wonder about their uncertain future as a lesbian couple in Tokyo....

A Japanese film about a bunch of otaku (or the cool cinema versions) in Akihabara who form a company and find themselves pitted against an evil corporation....

A plastic surgeon who excels at his job hides a dark secret. After finally succumbing to his desire to taste human flesh, the surgeon soon finds himself addicted to the taste of his patients' skin, which leads him to discover further culinary delight...

Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their parents. The elder sister Manamo lives in Hiroshima with her mother, she is a high school student, but moonlights at a Japanese cabaret-club. After her m...

This film is based on a novel by Araki Sumishi, who has gained a following mainly in Kobe. It depicts the true feelings of a young man who is troubled by the value of its existence....