Mitsunobu Kawamura (Producer)

A Family

Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to adhere to the family code amid ever-changing times.

Release Date2021-01-29

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count82

YOYOCHU in the Land of the Rising Sex

"Yoyochu" is the nick name for Tadashi Yoyogi. He is the father of Japanese adult video. Before becoming a pornographer, he was a flower arranger and a member of the mob. Here, we follow Tadashi Yoyogi as he seeks the truth behind love-making.

Release Date2011-01-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

MOTHER

Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to go get money from his disapproving grandparents instead of going to school. Except raising the little half-sister, his rock-bottom life seems to have no end.

Release Date2020-07-03

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count98

The Parades

A mother searches for her missing son after a devastating calamity, only to realize that she has died and is now confined to a realm of restless spirits.

Release Date2024-02-28

DepartmentCrew

JobOther

Vote Count36

Junichi

Jun'ichi is a young man without job or home who seems to have a great power of fascination over woman. He crosses the paths of different women who are unsatisfied with their lives and find comfort in his presence. It is a subtle love story between Jun'ichi's drifting life and six different woman from 16 to 65 years old.

Release Date2019-07-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count3

The Tesseract

A psychologist, an Englishman, a bellboy and a wounded female assasin have their fates crossed at a sleazy Bangkok hotel.

Release Date2004-06-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count21

The Village

In a once-scenic village now dominated by a vast trash disposal site, a young man yearns to break free from a cruel fate tying him to the very grounds.

Release Date2023-04-21

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count50

Black Box Diaries

Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country's outdated judicial and societal systems.

Release Date2024-10-24

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count94

Missing

A girl vanishes while walking, leaving her family devastated. As months pass without clues, rumors about her mother's actions intensify online, straining her marriage.

Release Date2024-05-17

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count12

A Light in the Harbor

Miura, an aging ex-yakuza, develops an unexpected bond with Kota, a blind orphan. As they grow closer like family, Miura learns that Kota's sight can be restored with surgery. Determined to help, he steals money from his former yakuza group and leaves it for Kota before turning himself in. 12 years later, Miura is released from prison. Upon learning this, the yakuza plans to kill both Miura and Kota. Miura sacrifices himself to protect Kota, and...

Release Date2025-11-14

DepartmentProduction

JobDevelopment Producer

Vote Count3

Double Life

Tama is a graduate student. She lives with her boyfriend Takuya. She becomes influenced by lectures about French writer Sophie Calle and begins to follow her neighbor Ishizaka. Tama soon discovers that her neighbor Ishizaka is having an affair. She becomes excited about discovering his secret. Her relationship with her boyfriend Takuya and her professor Shinohara changes.

Release Date2016-06-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count11

From Miyamoto to You

Following the comic series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young and relatively inexperienced man comes across a woman during his working day and sparks fly.

Release Date2019-09-27

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count15

The Journalist

It is the job of the press to cover corporate crime, government plots and society. It is in this context that young female reporter on the beat Erika rolls up her sleeves and goes to work regarding what seems to be a government cover up. She is dealing with a government bureaucrat called Sugihara. It seems as if a clash is inevitable.

Release Date2019-06-28

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count20

The Moon

Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.

Release Date2023-10-13

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count5

Grandson of a Monster

The late Shinzo Abe was the longest-serving prime minister of all time, holding office for 2,822 consecutive days. While his hawkish foreign policy and "Abenomics" economic policies won him support, he also attracted public attention for his controversial words, actions and scandals. Nobusuke Kishi, a politician and the maternal grandfather of former Prime Minister Abe, was nicknamed the "Monster of the Showa Era" for his ability to manipulate the political and business worlds by walking the fronts and backs of society. The film explores the mysteries of his blood and upbringing that led him to adopt an extremely "forward-looking" political stance in order to realize his ambitions, which were imprinted in his childhood mind as his "grandfather's teachings". With black humor and satirical picture books, the film unravels who former Prime Minister Abe was and what he left behind for this country.

Release Date2023-03-17

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count1

i -Documentary of the Journalist-

In Japan, there is an informal agreement between mainstream media and the government that is hardly ever questioned: Journalists are not too persistent in their criticism, in turn representatives of the government grant direct access to select information through press conferences. Isoko Mochizuki, reporter for the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper, has established herself as a spoilsport in this system.

Release Date2019-11-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count5

Any Crybabies Around?

A man has a baby, runs away, then comes back, but he can't just show up, apologize, and hope that makes himself a grown man.

Release Date2020-11-20

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count10

Our Homeland

From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their number, who returns for just a short period. For the first time in 25 years, Sonho is reunited with his family in Tokyo after being allowed to undergo an operation there. Sonho’s younger sister Rie is at the centre of the film, and is not hard to recognise as the director’s alter-ego. In her documentaries DEAR PYONGYANG and SONA, THE OTHER MYSELF, Yang Yonghi told the story of her own life, and how, at age six, she experienced the departure of her three older brothers, who left their family for Pyongyang.

Release Date2012-07-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count16

Intolerance

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

Release Date2021-09-23

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count24

Tasting the Pancakes for Poison

Release Date2021-07-30

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

Come On Irene

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 confronted by Tsuru—Iwao’s freshly widowed mother, who’s infuriated her loser son has married a woman she’s never met.

Release Date2018-09-14

DepartmentProduction

JobDevelopment Producer

Vote Count3

Hito to shigoto

A documentary about workers facing the coronavirus pandemic.

Release Date2021-10-08

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1