Hirofumi Arai Movies

Blue Spring

74/100

A group of a run-down Tokyo high school students face the struggles of growing up, growing apart from their friends and worrying about their future, while living in a highly violent environment.

Blood and Bones

71/100

In 1923, the Korean teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan...

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish

76/100

Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she... See full summary »

100 Yen Love

72/100

32-year-old Ichiko (Sakura Ando) lives at home with her parents, passing the days in self-indulgent grunginess. Ichiko's recently divorced younger sister Fumiko has moved back home with her... See full summary »

Bakuman.

70/100

Moritaka Mashiro, a junior high student, forgets his notebook in class. His classmate Akito Takagi, notes Mashiro's drawings in it and asks him to become a manga artist to his stories. ... See full summary »

Neighbour No. 13

65/100

Jûzô Murasaki is a boy miscast in his classroom, being frequently abused, tortured, beaten and humiliated by the bully Tôru Akai and his gang of juvenile punks. After years of repression, ... See full summary »

Close Range Love

64/100

A smart high school student falls in love with her new handsome English teacher after she begins to receive one-on-one tutoring from him.

Sway

73/100

On the anniversary of the death of the mother of a hip and happening Tokyo-based photographer, the son returns to his hometown for the funeral. What follows is a return to the past that is ... See full summary »

Hentai Kamen: The Abnormal Crisis

57/100

News about the disappearance of panties is covered every day." Kyosuke (Ryohei Suzuki) still wears Aiko Completo (Fumika Shimizu) panties to battle evil. Meanwhile, Aiko has mixed emotions ... See full summary »

Liar Game: Reborn

66/100

College graduate Yu Shinomiya is invited to the Liar Game, which has been restarted by funding from new investors...

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.

Loved Gun

71/100

Kanikôsen

58/100

(Japanese with English subtitles) Aboard the Japanese crab ship 'Kanikosen' equipped with a cannery facility, workers are forced to labor under pitiful conditions at minimum wages. Sick of ... See full summary »

Psychic Kusuo

58/100

Saiki Kusuo is a powerful psychic who hates attracting attention, yet he is surrounded by colorful characters who always find a way to remove him from his everyday life.

Okuda Tamio ni naritai Boy to deau otoko subete kuruwaseru Girl

53/100

Thirty-five-year-old Yuji Koroki likes singer Tamio Okuda. He is useless with women in the tradition of films like Train Man or My life Changed When I Went To A Sex Parlour. He works at a ... See full summary »

Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano

63/100

A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos. As she rises in popularity, the boundaries between her two lives begin to disintegrate.

Aka medaka

81/100

Lost and Found

52/100

In a world of disposable goods and persons lost and found department employee of Hoshigaoka Station Haruto was himself once abandoned by his mother. While he does his job adequately he also... See full summary »

Douki

34/100

The Blue Hearts

56/100

An anthology of several short films by several directors where each has taken inspiration from a favourite song of his by the Japanese punk rock band. The segments include Be Kind to Others, Love Letter and A Boy's Song.

The Matsugane Potshot Affair

63/100

The Whispering of the Gods

63/100

Rou returns to the rural seminary farm where he studied as a boy and was molested by priests. Rou has recently had a history of violence...

Ushijima the Loan Shark

64/100

The Actor

71/100

Box: Hakamada jiken - inochi towa

69/100