Movies: Atsushi Shinohara

  • 2021
    We Couldn't Become Adults

    We Couldn't Become Adults (2021)

    We Couldn't Become Adults

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    Prodded by a friend request, a feckless forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams....

    We Couldn't Become Adults
  • 2023
    Yoko

    Yoko (2023)

    Yoko

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    A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori, where she has not returned for 24 years, after hearing the news of her father's death....

    Yoko
  • 2021
    NO CALL NO LIFE

    NO CALL NO LIFE (2021)

    NO CALL NO LIFE

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    Adapted from Kabei Yukako's novel of the same name. After being guided by a mysterious message from the past on a cellphone's answering machine, Umi encounters Mahiro, a delinquent at her school. They gradually come closer, but more messages appearin...

    NO CALL NO LIFE
  • 2017
    Love and Other Cults

    Love and Other Cults (2017)

    Love and Other Cults

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    Ai's mother sends her to live with a cult commune, where she remains for seven years. After the cult is broken up by the police, Ai struggles to fit in with society....

    Love and Other Cults
  • 2017
    Side Job

    Side Job (2017)

    Side Job

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    Based on the novel "Kanojo no Jinsei wa Machigai ja Nai" (literal translation: Her life is not at fault) by Director Hiroki, it is a powerful story of survivors, who are all trying to find their own silver linings in life....

    Side Job
  • 2022
    Just Remembering

    Just Remembering (2022)

    Just Remembering

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    A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again. A bittersweet love story inspired by a Jim Jarmusch masterpiece, set in times of the COVID-19 pandemic....

    Just Remembering
  • 2020
    Voices in the Wind

    Voices in the Wind (2020)

    Voices in the Wind

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    Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her touching search for answers, Haru sets out on a long, eventful journey to her home town, where she lost her family in the flood....

    Voices in the Wind
  • 2022
    Sabakan

    Sabakan (2022)

    Sabakan

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    Nagasaki in 1986. Hisada, who lives with her affectionate parents and her younger brother, although there are many quarrels between couples, is a fifth grader who loves Yuki Saito and Exogini. Hisada decides to go to Boomerang Island to "see the dolp...

    Sabakan
  • 2015
    Three Stories of Love

    Three Stories of Love (2015)

    Three Stories of Love

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    A depressed widower, a bored housewife, and a gay lawyer all intersect in this triptych of love lost....

    Three Stories of Love
  • 2021
    Intolerance

    Intolerance (2021)

    Intolerance

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    A teenager girl's accidental death incites a media frenzy and causes her harsh father to turn his rage against those he believes are responsible....

    Intolerance
  • 2018
    The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

    The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (2018)

    The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

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    In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection....

    The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
  • 2018
    Love x Doc

    Love x Doc (2018)

    Love x Doc

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    Asuka Goda is a 40-year-old pastry chef who runs a sweets store. She works with pastry chef Seiya Hanada, who is younger than her, and Kenichi Gonda, who wants to become a pastry chef. One day, Seiya Hanada confesses to Asuka Goda about his feelings ...

    Love x Doc
  • 2020
    #HandballStrive

    #HandballStrive (2020)

    #HandballStrive

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    The school’s handball club is about to close down. Can social media bring it back to life? Masao Kiyota is a high school student living in Japan’s southern Kumamoto Prefecture. Lacking passion for anything in life, he spends his days like so many yo...

    #HandballStrive
  • 2013
    Zentai

    Zentai (2013)

    Zentai

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    An omnibus collection of six short films the stories are the result of skull sessions at workshops lead by writer and director Ryosuke Hashiguchi. The film depicts body-length tight fetishists called Zentai. The members of the group convene at a kara...

    Zentai
  • 2018
    Yaru Onna: She's a Killer

    Yaru Onna: She's a Killer (2018)

    Yaru Onna: She's a Killer

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    Aiko saw her parents murdered by the Yakuza when she was young. She grows up to become a killer to avenge her parents. her quest becomes more complicated when she learns her target is also and orphan and also has a blind daughter....

    Yaru Onna: She's a Killer
  • 2017
    Breathless Lovers

    Breathless Lovers (2017)

    Breathless Lovers

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    Suffering from heartbreak and asthma, 23-year-old Toshiyuki pushes the limits of his body to chase the ghost of his recently deceased boyfriend against the black-blue backdrop of Tokyo’s cityscape. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film...

    Breathless Lovers
  • 2019
    Unfinished

    Unfinished (2019)

    Unfinished

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    The yakuza have their best days behind them and are only a shadow of themselves. The old rituals seem out of date and their tattoos make them outcasts of society. The inexperienced student Ryō stumbles into their ranks by chance, and before he knows ...

    Unfinished
  • 2016
    Through Their Eyes

    Through Their Eyes (2016)

    Through Their Eyes

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    A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the welfare and ethical treatment of neglected dogs and cats at animal shelters. The story is told through the eyes of tormented vets who are relentless...

    Through Their Eyes
  • 2018
    One Son

    One Son (2018)

    One Son

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    A telephone call informs Ituski that his father has collapsed. He still cares, but father and son have not had the best of relationships. Ayumi is a professional mover and misses having a father. These men are unconnected and unrelated, but their pas...

    One Son
  • 2021
    Somebody's Flowers

    Somebody's Flowers (2021)

    Somebody's Flowers

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    A neighbor dies when potted flowers fall from a balcony of an apartment complex. A man whose father suffers from dementia begins to question if it really was an accident....

    Somebody's Flowers