Arata Iura Movies

After Life

77/100

After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.

Air Doll

69/100

A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

Pinpon

72/100

The film traces the growth and friendship of two very different high-school ping-pong players. "Peco" Hoshino is a brash, arrogant player, determined to turn pro. He taught his quiet, nerdy... See full summary »

Hanamizuki

70/100

Sae (Yui Aragaki) is a high school student who is studying hard for her college entrance exams. She lost her father when she was very young and so lives her mother Ryoko (Hiroko Yakushimaru... See full summary »

Distance

71/100

Members of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city's water supply, then commit mass suicide near the shores of a lake. Family members of the perpetrators meet at the lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.

United Red Army

72/100

A story about the rise and fall of United Red Army, a real life 70s short-lived Japanese armed revolutionary communist movement similar to more famous Red Brigades in Italy or ... See full summary »

Snakes and Earrings

65/100

19 year old Rui finds life deeply disappointing until she falls in love with Ama in Shibuya, Tokyo. She was attracted by his piercings so decided to have her tongue pierced too. Pain is the... See full summary »

Solanin

71/100

Meiko and Taneda are a couple graduated from university two years ago. Unhappy with their lives, Meiko...

The Ravine of Goodbye

68/100

A child's horrific murder brings to light the haunted truth of an affair between her mother and a neighbor. As a magazine reporter investigates the case, he finds that nothing is as it seems.

Our Homeland

72/100

Based on the director's own experience, Our Homeland follows a Korean family living in Japan, of which...

11.25: The Day He Chose His Own Fate

61/100

On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence...

The Millennial Rapture

66/100

The Extreme Sukiyaki

71/100

Asleep

52/100

A Band Rabbit and a Boy

65/100

Shadow of Sand

The film was based on the actual event of a female office worker (Yukie) in Japan who kills her lover and stays with the corpse for forty days. The film was shot on a 8mm camera.

A Blue Automobile

63/100

The yakiniku mûbî: Purukogi

60/100

Sheidî gurôvu

55/100

Kaien Hoteru · burû

61/100

Koi

60/100

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