Maiko Kawakami Movies

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark

After a tragic accident, Terrolun becomes a shut-in, living in his parent's garage where he fixes mechanical items. When Lunlun, a hearing-impaired...

Five people arrive at a movie theater where a comedy movie is being shown: the president of a transportation company and his wife, a ronin student, a...

Eriko, a 25-year-old office worker living in Tokyo, has become pregnant by her boyfriend, Ide, whom she doesn’t love all that deeply. Torn...

Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises...

Children born with special power. They seek blood for eternal life. And tonight, the victims ...!

This is a series of three short supernatural-themed movies. The first tells the story of a teen girl who dreams of haunted doll. In the second movie,...

Miki, a nursing care robot, is popular among some medical staff and patients for her dainty and efficient work, but others are more skeptical. One...

About a group of itinerant actors.

Masanao Ushio and other detectives from Shinjuku West PD discover the strangled dead body of a woman in an empty building in West Shinjuku in Tokyo....

The Shogun gets engaged to a princess who rebels against the prospect, because she wasn't consulted.

A young girl with leukemia travels a pilgrimage by skateboard.

19-year-old freeter (a Japanese expression for people between the ages of 15 and 34 who lack full time employment or are unemployed, excluding...

Short film starring Maiko Kawakami.

Sayako was abused by her mother as a young child. She eventually moved into a foster care facility because of the abuse and has lived there ever...

The protagonist, Shippei Iida, moves with his mother to the remote island of Origoshima. He transfers to the island's only high school, Origoshima...