Movies: Mariko Akama

Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members....

Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests, many of which are abnormal....

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own be...

A series of suspicious deaths, starting with that of her boyfriend Kawazu Masayuki, prompts mystery novelist Yuki Rikako to investigate. She discovers that all the victims were once passengers on the same cruise ship a year ago and involved in an acc...

Tatsuo and his daughter Haru run Takano Tofu Store in Onomichi. They begin their work before dawn every day. They carefully select beans to make their tofu. While they have peaceful days, Tatsuo worries about his daughter being alone after his death....

Urban legend horror film based on the true story of the "Ghost Apartment Incident" that occurred in Gifu Prefecture's Tomika Town in 2000....

Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office that deals with violent cases, where he will work with Takeshi Mogami, whom he admires. When a money lender is killed and it is suspected tha...

It depicts two high school girls trying to change the atmosphere of the world with their ideas by setting up a camera in the town and transmitting the footage via SNS....

Kei Omori is a caregiver who has left his previous job at a small-scale care service to come work at a large-scale nursing home. But he is unable to hide his tremendous discomfort with a management style that prioritizes efficiency and risk control i...

Shuta (Sota Fukushi), Saku (Shuhei Nomura) and Michiru (Tsubasa Honda) have been best friends since they were kids. Tragedy strikes the friends when during the winter of 2010, Saku dies from a heart attack. After Saku's death, Shuta and Michiru becom...

Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the publisher and subordinates and runs the ship well. Chatting with his direct boss he picks up a certa...

Tanno Tomofumi, diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's at the age of 39, Orange Lamp followed a married couple's nine years after realizing that life has no reason to surrender to an disease....

A promising rhythmic gymnast is diagnosed with a spinal cord disease and becomes paralyzed from the waist down. She is devastated. With the help of music, she will work toward a new dream....

A 48-year-old unsuccessful actor confronts his past when he undergoes hypnosis after a mysterious teenager hands him a note....

A ferry captain named Sugisaki (Takahashi Hideki) and his first officer, Kojima (Funakoshi Eiichiro), participate in a photoshoot conducted by camerawoman Yamaka Shiori (Ohama Tomoko) of the ferry. The ferry reaches Miyazaki and Sugisaki and Kojima g...

Kazuma kills his father in order to protect his mother and younger sister from violence. He begins life at a halfway house with an aim toward social rehabilitation and also works diligently at a scrap mill, but society has labeled him a “murderer”. G...

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The three Aoi sisters live in a luxurious Japanese house. One night, Kotoko, the eldest, wakes up when she feels a presence stirring in the darkness. Her right eye gets pierced by a nail flying from the darkness. However, when the sisters check, both...

Daisuke is in the 2nd grade of high school and he plays on his school's baseball team. Daisuke then takes part in a gourmet contest with 3 of his friends and 2 girls, including Miki, from a nearby girls' high school. The gourmet contest is held to re...

In a small town with a big red bridge, a run-down apartment, which everyone calls a haunted house, stands still. A few days before the summer break begins, two high school girls, Kaede and Azusa, find a boy living in the abandoned place by himself. N...