Makiko Watanabe Movies

A failed director is trying to get his next movie off the ground, while dealing with his cranky brother and his estranged wife.

Following the 2011 tsunami, three women reunite in the family home only to rekindle tense, ruinous relationships.

About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark

A troubled teenager only lives through her camera and the Internet. Fascinated by science, she experiments on various animals, and her own mother,...

Mogura, a shut-in former musician, falls in love with a young cellist after seeing her photo in a magazine.

Ryoko hides herself in a closet after a patron in her restaurant becomes ill from food poisoning & she is held responsible. Her husband and co-owner...

Four short films produced without a director

Satoshi learns his estranged mother has six months to live. They must reunite for one last farewell. A short film from the "Short Trial Project...

Tetsuro is living with his young girlfriend Aki in a pleasant house in Tokyo. They both spend a lot of time at their jobs. However their routine is...

Nana is 19 and lives in a corner of Tokyo. Her birth mother and Marin, a girl the same age who she loves, were the only people she could trust. Nana...

Hinako comes across the novel “Tamaran Hill” and immediately starts reading it with delight, as “tamaran” (intolerable)...

Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he...