Mitsuru Hirata Movies

Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried...

Two men, a detective and a gang member, infiltrate each other's organization. Soon they find their fates intertwined.

Yu Miri is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka,...

Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by...

After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was having an affair with. Raising the child as her own,...

An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.

A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.

Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.

Japanese anthology follows the depressing lives of several people just trying to keep going in a nihilistic world. Movie version of Kosuke...

Adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's novel.

A man arrives in the city upon news of a potential terrorist strike in Italy. He is Japanese foreign diplomat, Kosaku Kuroda, and he’s here...

Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

An aspiring floral designer and the photographer next door become drawn to each other through the everyday sounds they hear through their shared...

Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a...

Kyoko (Sakura Ando) works as an insurance agent. Due to a series of unfortunate events, she brings shame to her family and has to leave her hometown....

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.