Movies: Masato Hagiwara

A scramble of love and friendship that unfolds painfully and refreshingly, mainly on a university campus. A vivid spectacle of youth runs at full speed towards the motorcycle race that takes place around the woman of your dreams!...

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Physician Koichiro Kiby loses interest in work and begins drinking in a local park after the death of his wife. One day he encounters a girl who knows intimate details about his life. Now, he must unlock her mystery in this fantasy drama....

Shima (Mirei Kiritani) is a second year high school student. She has already become the youngest ever winner of a "new writer award" for poetry. Yet, she keeps it a secret that she is a writer at school. Shima has developed feelings for fellow second...

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Set in Katsunuma, Yamanashi Prefecture, heartland of grape cultivation, Okazaki Noriko, a high school senior and daughter of a grape farmer, reflects on her first encounter with Iwanaga Takeo, a star rugby player, three years ago in her family’s vine...

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Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested for the June 10, 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka . Iwao Hakamada has always insisted on his innoc...

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 living by selling old items in flea markets, meets a nurse and he falls in love with her. He decides t...

A pair of siblings visit a friend in a remote town with a strange effect on its inhabitants; when they die, they transform into gravestones....

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A radio DJ, Mai starts a new program called, "Love Letters from the Drawer" to assist people who need an extra push to send out their simple yet very important message for their loved ones. The show was inspired by her own experience after reading a ...

Childhood friends Hinata and Hayato are training hard in kendo for their final high school inter-high school competition. One day, Hinata is scouted by an entertainment agency. This causes a rift in their relationship. The film depicts these two yo...

One day, a deaf photographer, Miki Yamashina, happens to meet a young man, Makoto Shibata, on the street. Shibata had been averse to human contact ever since he ran over a child, but Miki finds an unexpected way to support him....

As the monk Ryuun, whose past and origin make him prone to internal and external fits, leaves the temple towards Tokyo, he gets to catch a glimpse of enlightenment resonating with the blind Kanoko....

‘My dad saw a monster here. When he was a kid.’ · ‘A monster?’ · ‘Yeah, a monster. It moves between this world and the next.’ Ao lives with his mother and little sister Kii on Sado Island in Japan. He misses his father, who recently disappeared with...

Japanese film directed by Jinsei Tsuji...