Koto Nagata Movies

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their...

Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in...

Childhood best friends. Cousins. Housemates. Coworkers. Eight stories of unrequited love, eight sets of people who weren't meant to be together. ...

21-year-old Misora Honzawa went to Tokyo from Aomori. Misora Honzawa happens to see Kumi on TV who is a yoga Instructor and model. By chance, the two...

Student Yuko is a vain person who appears to be carefree and aggressive on the outside, but her personal life is reserved and simple. One day she...

The making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story that played out on a BBS

A documentary looking back on the making of Shunji Iwai's TV play Fireworks, Should We See it from the Side or the Bottom?.

Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"),...

Murakami Naoki is the most intelligent student at his high school, but he can't stop obsessing over a girl named Mizuno Haruka. He finally asks her...

Christmas-themed omnibus TV movie: Hotdog Express; Documentarytic; 祭典の日

Two love stories set in Shibuya, Tokyo.

Yuri, a 16-year-old Japanese girl, moves to Taiwan after her father's remarriage and job transfer. Because of the language barrier, living with her...

Yoriko, a lonely housewife, spies on her neighbors through a hole in the wall of her kitchen.

Behind the scenes documentary about the filming of "Hana & Alice", which began as a series of shorts promoting Kit Kat

My Cactus is a film from writer/director Koto Nagata that tells the story of unrequited love between its two main characters.