Yohta Kawase Movies

Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws strength from Mt. Hayachine, where the spirits of...

Yoichi plays basketball at his junior high and is capable. He is granted a scholarship and attends a high school with a superlative basket team....

After the explosive demise of their last subject, scientists must look for a replacement on whom to continue their bizarre experiments with...

“Hana-Dama”—a flower in the wasteland. This flower is a symbol of earthly desires and every human is overwhelmed by desire and...

Hostess Aki has drinks with men and gets allowance in return. She survives day by day until one day she hears from Saiki that there is someone...

While documenting a controversial tragedy that shook her community, a filmmaker must put her morals to the test when a perverse secret in her own...

36-year-old Shoko Morimura (Aika Yukihira) is raising her daughter on her own while working as a temporary worker. At a high school reunion, she...

A Japanese giallo about a murderous driver roaming the street in search of prey.

In an audacious reworking of the biopic, this ensemble drama sees jazz pianist Minami Hiroshi’s memoir cleverly reinterpreted into a surreal...

Satoko is a 15-year-old junior high school student. After a brief encounter with herclassmate Hayase at the ENT clinic, she begins to write a story...

Fumiko, a married bookkeeper at a hair salon, is having an affair with one of the stylists, Sawai. Suspecting that her co-worker Mayumi is also...

Set in 1945 at the end of World War II. Saku arrives on Kakeromajima as the head of navy special forces. He is admired by the children on the island...

After a happily married couple running a hot spring resort are awakened to their sadomasochistic desires, their relationship will never be the same.

Cha-Cha is the love story between the titular Cha-Cha, a free-spirited artist, and Raku, a boy with increasingly questionable tastes. Cha-Cha is...

A depressed ex-boxer (Yosuke Kubozuka) self-medicating for the injuries that ended his career finds a stray cat that brightens his day, but she is...

Misaki, who is not satisfied with her husband, feels surprised satisfaction every night when she sees a scene in which her husband, Chae Sung shares...

A photographer becomes intrigued by a mysterious man who has chosen to filter his experience of the world through a cardboard box placed over his...

Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a...

Shoko Morimura (Aika Yukihira) is a 36-year-old single mother who has been in a "friendship" with Kazuki Kitada (Sho Aoyagi), whom she met again at a...

Akira Kurosawa is a nerdy movie buff who works on low budget romantic comedies while dreaming of becoming a horror master. After being abused by his...