Kaoru Iida

The Road to Red Restaurant List

Suda Tamio is an ordinary salaryman. He experiences various stress throughout his daily life. His only pleasure...

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and...

Tokyo Sunrise

Ren struggles with the death of his longtime friend Kaoru. He finds a painting of a girl that Kaoru left behind...

Dias Police: Dirty Yellow Boys

About 150,000 illegal entrants live in Tokyo. They are not recognised as refugees and live in poor conditions....

His Lost Name

Middle-aged widower Tetsuro finds an unconscious, homeless young man on the riverbank in his small seaside town...

And the Mud Ship Sails Away...

Takashi is country hipster, work avoiding, not-so-smart life expert in vague rural-urban area in the north from...

Kanagawa University of the Arts Visual Concept Planning Department

Akira Okuda worked as an assistant at the Visual Concept Planning Department of Kanagawa University of Arts, ac...

Vanitas

What is life like at a Japanese university? Four "friends" drift in and out of their friendships and face bored...

Howling

Aya adapts Hyakken Uchida’s eponymous short story in which characters wonder whether they are alive or dead, as...

YEAH

A young woman, Ako, wanders around a sparsely populated housing estate in a rural city, Mito, where she spends...

Journey Through the Night

Nagi meets a taciturn man named Goro and goes with him to a rooftop to commit a double suicide, but they decide...

Speak Low

Sara and Ryo have been going out for 5 years. They take a trip from Tokyo to nearby Atami in November of 2017....

The Kumamoto Dormitory

Born and raised in Kumamoto, Mine Goichi went to Tama Art University and spent four student years living in the...

北⾵だったり、太陽だったり

A Garden in Winter

A Garden in Winter is about Alexandra, who owns a garden where someone builds a shed to spend the night. At fir...

Ow

Jobless young Tetsuo and his girlfriend Yuriko are inexplicably immobilized after laying eyes on an orb-like ob...