Makiko Watanabe

Japan, 2024. The Earth is dominated by a mysteriously giant creature (That Thing) and the group of 12 survivors has formed an uneasy community ...

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 fiancée. ...

A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the ...

I is a university, who came to Tokyo from his hometown. I lives alone and doesn’t have friends or a girlfriend. I’s university life ...

Three girls – Miwa, an introvert who’s best friend is her turtle, Saori, a rich girl from a celebrity family, and Koyuzu, a member of ...

Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her touching search for answers, Haru sets out ...

Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to ...

Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry.

After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets ...

On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While ...

“Daijobu 3 Kumi” depicts the interactions between new teacher Shinnosuke Akao, who was born without arms and legs, and the 28 ...

After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.

A seemingly “normal” office worker Hiroko has a secret. At home she lives with a prosthetic torso – no head, arms or feet, just ...

The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an “up-skirt” photographer in an ...

A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded ...

It is a taboo story about love and incest between twins. It’s not about sex, it’s about the feelings the two have for one another and ...

A failure as a teacher and a familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as the superhero “Zebraman”. Although ...

When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple ...

Tetsuro is living with his young girlfriend Aki in a pleasant house in Tokyo. They both spend a lot of time at their jobs. However their routine ...

23-year-old comic book artist Yuma, physically disabled due to profound cerebral palsy and emotionally stunted by her well-meaning but overly ...

Natsuki, a sales clerk of a bookstore, and Koji. a high school student. Seemingly nothing in common, they have one thing they can share: books.