Movies: Satoshi Nikaido

Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed by his own yakuza gang for failing to repay his debts....

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 Megumi (Misato Tanaka). Ayaka (Sara Minami) is a 16-year-old girl. She has refused to go to school for abo...

A couple running a restaurant hires young people who have been released from juvenile detention to help them reintegrate into society. The 18-year-old Yuto is keen to start a new life with their help....

Twelve years after the death of his high school girlfriend, Fujima (Kenta Kiku) has become a journalist and is ordered by his editor to write an article about her as an "unsolved case processed as an accidental death." Fujima objects, saying, "Writin...

You have the blood of a beast in your body. Since childhood, Mishio (Maho Tomita) had been told by her mother that she would attack and eat humans after her twentieth birthday. Mother and daughter lived together, the mother as a caretaker of a summer...

Whimsical film in which students and teachers come together during a weekend for a wedding. The film flutters back and forth between the various characters and their feelings until the wedding starts. Shot in the old beach hotel where the great Ozu w...

Kazuha and her husband Daichi drift apart. Daichi wants a child, but Kazuha thinks she is too old to have one, and is concerned about her Asperger Syndrome....