Yohta Kawase Movies

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

An omnibus recorded in a short film by five film directors with the motif of the song "Kai Band".

Satoko, a married woman who frequently pursues flings using a dating site with her mobile phone. One day, she meets Atsushi, a designer blinded by an...

Marika and Akira are a couple who have been together for four years. Shun, a friend of Akira's, also has feelings for her. This pop love story...

Takashima is a young struggling actor who wants to be a film director. The film follows his chance encounters and career highlights (and lowlights!)...

Junko, who has precognition, predicted her senior's death and disappeared from her fiancé's life. Five years later, Junko, who works in a...

Asako and Yamada, after getting drunk for the first time and going straight to the hotel, spend a hot night, but they are separated by a fire that...

Omnibus by three young directors in the spotlight of Japan’s independent film industry, dealing with the theme of “lost virginity.”...

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

After a brief kidnapping, a young woman connects with the boyish member of a gang. They start traveling, soon encountering a nurse hoping to become...

Etsuko (Rinko Kikuchi) was given the post to take charge in the launch of a web media site which specifically deals with the theme “the streets...

Shinjiro, who runs a humble detective agency using a coffee shop in a certain town as his office, gets into trouble at a dark gambling den and is...

An interview with cinematographer Junichiro Hayashi speaking about his work with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa

A short film by Daichi Watanabe.

Elementary school boy Hiroto doesn’t have any talents or dreams for the future. One day he sees a wrestling match by popular masked wrestler...

This story follows the journey of an ill-fated young man whose ambition is to be a professional antiques dealer. A hard-up young man, who makes his...

Akihiko Kobe, a first-year high school student with a stutter, is a target of bullying in his class and spent his days depressed. Akihiko lives at...

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