Aoba Kawai Movies

After his parents die, a teenager goes to live with his older brother. As his loneliness grows, he becomes engrossed in practicing modern dance with...

A suburban town is faced with a series of bizarre incidents in which children disappear and three days later an adult in their life dies. A...

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

Iwao Shishido has found a wife. After paying three million yen for a bridal tour to the Philippines, he comes home with Irene, who is promptly...

Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who...

Haruno, a second-year high school student, is aiming to go to a national university as her parents wish, but she really wants to be a groomer....

Chisako Satoya, a writer, and her father, Kozo, had a long-standing feud and had been living apart for a long time. However now that Kozo, who lives...

A married woman obsesses over a hairstylist she becomes involved with.

A young man moves from the countryside to Tokyo, while experiencing hardships and happiness, in his pursuit to become a comics artist.

Yuko Yajima works at a library. To her co-workers she appears as an extremely shy and introverted person who hardly lets anyone know her true...

Akiko (Mai Fukagawa) is a former idol, but now lives an ordinary life. She works at a company and keeps reminding herself that she is happy and to...

While the wedding day should be blissful for the bride, Eiko, there is a secret that she can’t tell her fiance...

Hiiro Miyata is 19 and works hard to be able to afford both her college and paying rent to her financially irresponsible mother. Physical intimacy...

Asai Takuma is a fourth year college student who is having a hard time finding a job and is desperate for the sake of his future with girlfriend,...

Can we ever be freed from the "curse of love" that dictates "women must be pretty and fall in love"? A humorous and at times affecting chronicle of...

A countryside in 1988. Shun is crazy about fooling around with his best friends. Facing up with their family environment or bullying in school, they...

Haji is an actor on the cusp of turning 40, who has gotten stuck in life. At the invitation of an old friend, he visits his hometown for the first...

Yuri, Moeko, and Ai are best friends from high school. Though their twenties were about to end, they believed their eternal world would remain...

Hasegawa is writing a sequel to his previous novel, based on a true character who murdered 9 people on the street, with the premise that the killer...