Ataru Oikawa

A survival action thriller written and directed by Oikawa Ataru, who has been a leading figure on the Japanese low-budget horror scene since his ...

Maebara Keiichi, a young teenager, has recently moved from the city to the rural village of Hinamizawa with his family. He is adjusting quite ...

Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in ...

A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an Indian goddess. Sayoko is a kind of femme ...

While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps ...

A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the ...

Within days after the mysterious new student Kawakami Tomie joins a high school classroom, all hell literally breaks loose. Simple in-fighting ...

Sachiko Kokubu, the beautiful owner of a Tokyo design agency, finds her life disrupted when she receives paper scraps stitched together with ...

Set in a house in the suburbs, the film uses black humor to depict the horrors caused by a strange drainage pipe that drags people in.

It explores the mysteries of supernatural spots and urban legends across Japan. “Discover the Legendary Vampire Beastman Chupacabra of H ...

Youth Sports film directed by Ataru Oikawa

In the near future Japan’s economy is in shambles and bet bowling is huge. Team Kingpin hopes the government will ban bet bowling so they ...

LOVERS’ KISS (ラヴァーズ・キス?) is a 2003 Japanese romance movie based on a manga by Akimi Yoshida. This is a youth movie of six teenagers (three ...

An action film depicting the friendship and betrayal of a group of bad girls. A yakuza movie with popular idols.

Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. ...

A Shibuya-kei violence movie in which ferocious love runs fast. The director is Ataru Oikawa. Beasts that cut through the darkness. Prostitution, ...

Yamato Tanaka, who attempted to murder his father in the past, used to work as a janitor in a theme park. Now unemployed, Yamato lives in a very ...

Filmed entirely in the Shibuya area, the city and youth culture of Shibuya in the 1990s are fully visualized.Theatrical release was also ...