Marika Matsumoto Movies

Four women of different ages work at or frequent an ice cream shop, each dealing with dreams, timidity, inexperience with love, and personal pain,...

Yuta lives in an orphanage while waiting for her mother to pick her up. One day, Yuta, who happened to know his mother's whereabouts, escaped from...

Mio Meguro (Fuka Koshiba) continues her dream of becoming a writer, while living with yokai (folklore monsters) in a share house. She struggles in...

A 100-year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping him alive suddenly malfunction, or was he murdered? A...

Aspiring child actress Nanoka (Nanoka Hara) hopes to follow in her late mother's footsteps and become an actress. She is more talented and pretty...

Six short stories: Chain Mail, Left Behind, Tattoo, Viewfinder's Memory, Guardian Angel, and Mortuary

Industrial Hitachi City is the location for this post-3.11 drama. Still recovering from the tsunami, Shiori receives news of her husband’s...

Short anti-war animation adapting the picture book Sensou no Tsukurikata. It was created by the group NOddIN.

After their parents die, two brothers reopen a seaside hotel that no one visits. A woman asking for a long stay arrives without a...

The Diamond Ore Country is in crisis, and so the leader, Diancie, and her four Carbink butlers have decided to hunt down the legendary...

Deleted Scenes from Koji Shiraishi's 2005 film "Noroi: The Curse"; included in the J-Horror Rising Boxset

A desperate actor sits through a terrible play—then gets a text from his manager: go backstage, pay your respects, and bring a gift. In a...

Iwakiri is now a third year university student who belongs to a film studies group on campus but has yet to shoot even one film. He hears from an...

2002 release

Miwa lost her mother in a traffic accident and wanders the streets of Shibuya. Trying to sort out her feelings for her mother, she feels alone...

Focusing on the lives (and a few deaths) of three filmmakers, Rikiya Imaizumi (Their Distance, Sad Tea) tackles weighty themes in this new ensemble...

7 high school boys at a summer dance club retreat find themselves in a terrifying night they never expected. Shot on a smartphone for an immersive...

Born out of every artist’s creative crisis, the search for the next topic, Hirobumi WATANABE presents his latest film, dealing with the...

A state of emergency was declared for the first time under the Law Concerning Special Measures against COVID-19, on April 7th, in Japan. It has...

A short film by Kazuaki Kiriya.