Using his family members and friends as cast, independent filmaker Fumiki Watanabe has brought a drama to the screen which opens a window into the daily lives of modern Japanese living in provincial towns. In the story, (Fumiki is a tutor to junior high students. In Japan, the pressure on pre-college-age students to excel in their studies is so intense that after-school tutors have a very important role in the culture, and tutoring is a respected full-time profession. The tutor is bored with his marriage, and has a liaison with the parent of one of his girl students. At the same time, his son is going out with his new mistress' girl, and as a result of this, the situation rapidly becomes very confusing, and Fumiko is unable to hide this pecadillo satisfactorily.

Homemade Movie

Based on a true story, a Japanese boy's suicide is elevated to the status of metaphor for Japan's feudal system and its strict adherence to conformity.

The Funeral

Drama based on the true story of an unexplained death and the uncovering of police corruption and violence.

Bari zôgon

In 1975 a middle-aged anarchist recruits a policeman's daughter for an attempt to blow up Emperor Hirohito's train.

Body Clock

The Prime Minister attends a kendo dedication in the mountains. A mysterious man named Watanabe appears and confronts him about the truth behind the Japan Airlines Flight 123 plane crash.

Osutaka-yama

Film about the workings of the Japanese imperial family

Tennō densetsu

A film of the contradictions of distorted intra-military discrimination that occurred at Nomonhan