Makiko Watanabe Movies

Professional killer Ken (Hirofumi Arai) is trying to break away from the yakuza. Taking up work at a local motorcycle shop, he forges a new life...

Momi’s House is a facility to support self-reliance of young people with problems. The facility is run by Yasutoshi (Naoto Ogata) and his wife...

Mika (Marie Ono), a Japanese-American woman, returns to her native Saitama hometown and becomes a therapist for a "nemuriba" ("a place to sleep").

A young female founder runs in to societal barriers during her drive to create startup projects, in a Japanese society that hasn't traditionally...

Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside school non-existent. But when both girls are drawn to...

The slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend.

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark

Wakana is a 17-year-old high school student who loves to cook. She enjoys peaceful days with her family and friends, but sometimes she senses...

Nana is 19 and lives in a corner of Tokyo. Her birth mother and Marin, a girl the same age who she loves, were the only people she could trust. Nana...

Sanae is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her mother and six-year-old sister. She has not recently been able to be open with her fisherman...

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...

Another psychodrama, this time revolving around an SM club.

Part-time worker Hazuki lives with her younger sister, high school student Koharu, and their mother Sawa. One day they receive word that their...

Ryoko hides herself in a closet after a patron in her restaurant becomes ill from food poisoning & she is held responsible. Her husband and co-owner...

Mogura, a shut-in former musician, falls in love with a young cellist after seeing her photo in a magazine.

About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him

The growth and struggles of Akari, a third-generation Korean born the year of the Great Hanshin Earthquake. A post-disaster story based on people...

A troubled teenager only lives through her camera and the Internet. Fascinated by science, she experiments on various animals, and her own mother,...

Sensitive and refined drama in which experiences from the puberty of a female teacher and a piano student reflected in the world of the younger...

A sixteen year old boy, Ryo, experiences the painful ordeal of his mother being hospitalized and then dying. The boy turns to crime, but doesn't find...