Yohta Kawase Movies

Syo and Han, colleagues, are out enjoying a relaxing day fishing, when they happen upon Mayumi and Misako, a very attractive young woman and her...

Schoolgirls on the verge of adulthood know that boys can be feckless and girls treacherous. Three friends gather around a Ouija board to call forth...

Directorial debut by Kiridoshi Risaku, an accomplished film and cultural critic and author of "Miyazaki Hayao no ‘sekai'" and "Kaiju tsukai to...

Professional mahjong player Akari Asada couldn't accept her rival Yumi Shimamura's suicide. Asada proceeds with the investigation to uncover the...

During winter break elementary school teacher Kyoko Uno gives supplemental lessons to her student Teppei, who is behind in school. Kyoko has an...

Izumi had just lost her husband Nishimura. Nishimura had fallen down the stairs while drunk. One day, she found a tape with a woman's voice among his...

A road trip with a rebellious son, a reckless brother, and an uncontrollable pet turtle goes crazy.

Yuko Tanaka, who "married into" the Tanaka family, a family running a poultry farm, led a modest life despite being mistreated by her sister-in-law,...

1726, Sanchu, Okayama Prefecture: farmers negotiate with the feudal domain in order to seek exemption from rising taxes. Infighting leads to...

An fantastic anthology made by Katsuya Tomita, Masanori Tominaga and Tetsuya Mariko for the 4th Okinawa International Movie Festival in 2012.

Anata wo matteimasu is a feature-film comedy directed by Shinji Imaoka (Underwater Love, Uncle’s Paradise, Frog Song, Lunchbox, The Woman of...

A fugitive man and woman (Kawase, Kawana) come to an island to retrieve their son (Iwasaki), who the woman has given to a foster family, but the...

Yasuko and Shizuka, friends and coworkers, come to be so much more after a terrible incident involving Shizuka’s boyfriend. After an intense...

Shot in the historic city of Nara, this film depicts the growth and conflicts of a talented 14-year-old female sprinter with a complex family...