Cast: Ryuya Wakaba

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Ryuya Wakaba. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


My Sunshine

2024 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Okuyama

Cast Keitatsu Koshiyama · Kiara Takanashi · Sôsuke Ikematsu · Ryuya Wakaba

Synopsis On a small Japanese island, life revolves around the changing seasons. Winter is time for ice hockey at school, but Takuya isn’t too thrilled about it. His real interest lies in Sakura, a figure skating rising star from Tokyo, for...

7.0

30 votes

7.0

30 votes

True Mothers

2020 · Movie · 139 min. · Japan

Direction Naomi Kawase

Cast Hiromi Nagasaku · Arata Iura · Aju Makita · Miyoko Asada

Synopsis A woman with an adopted child is contacted unexpectedly by the child's birth mother.

6.7

449 votes

6.7

449 votes

Call Me Chihiro

2023 · Movie · 131 min. · Japan

Direction Rikiya Imaizumi

Cast Kasumi Arimura · Lily Franky · Jun Fubuki · Mitsuru Hirata

Synopsis Chihiro works at a small beachside bento shop, Nokonoko Bento, and becomes a popular figure in the city.

6.1

253 votes

6.1

253 votes

Awake

2020 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan

Direction Atsuhiro Yamada

Cast Fumika Baba · Junya Kawashima · Kanna Mori · Tasuku Nagaoka

Synopsis Eiichi devotes time to become one of the best shogi players he could be including attending classes, studying and practicing as often as possible. Riku puts him to shame though. So Eiichi enrolled in college and studies Computer Programming where...

5.8

25 votes

5.8

25 votes

Sugisaki Hana no Satsukyu

2023 · Series · Japan

Direction Rikiya Imaizumi · Daigo Matsui · Shô Miyake

Cast Hana Sugisaki · Ai Hashimoto · Ryôta Bandô · Ayano Moriguchi

Synopsis Depicts how Hana Sugisaki spends her days off during breaks in shooting dramas and movies.

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Ichiko

2023 · Movie · Japan

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What Is Love?

2018 · Movie · 123 min. · Japan

Direction Rikiya Imaizumi

Cast Noriko Eguchi · Mai Fukagawa · Reiko Kataoka · Yukino Kishii

Synopsis Twenty-eight-year-old office lady Teruko is head over heels with Mamoru. The sting of love is so strong that she has all but ignored her friends, home and work. Her family and friends are indifferent when she loses her job. Yet,...

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Love on Sunday

2006 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Ryuichi Hiroki

Cast Yuria Haga · Takami Mizuhashi · Kazunori Sasaki · Ryuya Wakaba

Synopsis Akira had to transfer schools upon graduation because of her father's job. She was reluctant to move because of her secret love for Nao, a childhood friend. Nao, however, is head over heels for Tamaki. A farewell party is planned...

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Prior Convictions

2022 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshiyuki Kishi

Cast Kasumi Arimura · Go Morita · Hayato Isomura · Makita Sports

Synopsis Kayo is a probation officer who forges ahead with her job. Continuing to work closely with ex-convicts, she is assigned to Kudo who had committed murder. As she endeavors to rehabilitate him, Kudo suddenly disappears and emerges as a suspect...

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By the Window

2022 · Movie · 143 min. · Japan

Direction Rikiya Imaizumi

Cast Mirai Shida · Tina Tamashiro · Yuri Nakamura · Goro Inagaki

Synopsis A man discovers his wife is cheating on him, then he is bothered by mixed feelings.

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Going my Home (TV Series)

2020 · Series · 40 min. · Japan

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda · Rikiya Imaizumi · Megumi Tsuno · Santa Yamagishi

Cast Kasumi Arimura · Shinnosuke Mitsushima · Jun Fubuki · Sairi Itô

Synopsis Playing a fictional version of herself, actress Kasumi Arimura enjoys a day off in this charming example of Hirokazu Koreeda's rarely seen television work.

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Days with you

2009 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

Direction Amiy Mori

Cast Erika Toda · Kazuki Katô · Ryuya Wakaba · Midoriko Kimura

Synopsis Natsuki takes care of her young autistic brother. She then meets her old childhood friend and falls in love, unfortunately he suffers from a serious illness.

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On the Street

2020 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan

Direction Rikiya Imaizumi

Cast Kotone Furukawa · Takeo Gozu · Minori Hagiwara · Hoshi Moeka

Synopsis Aoi Arakawa works at a secondhand clothing store in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. He lives a simple life. In his free time, he likes to browse used bookstores or go to bars by himself. Things become more complicated when Aoi Arakawa gets...

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God expects something in return

2022 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Keisuke Yoshida

Cast Tsuyoshi Muro · Yukino Kishii · Ryuya Wakaba · Kaito Yoshimura

Synopsis Yuri-chan is an unpopular YouTuber just trying to get famous. One day she meets a man, Tamogami, who starts helping her create content and miraculously he doesn't even want anything in return. However, things start to unravel as his true...

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Masked Hearts

2023 · Movie · 140 min. · Japan

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Tabidachi no shimauta: 15 no haru

2013 · Movie · 114 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuhiro Yoshida

Cast Kaoru Kobayashi · Toshihito Kokubo · Ayaka Miyoshi · Saori

Synopsis Teenage girl Yuna lives on an island of Okinawa. Her island has little technology, no high school and no alternatives to tending to the land or water as a living. Teenagers have to decide to stay and engage the elements...

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Dynamite Graffiti

2018 · Movie · 138 min. · Japan

Direction Masanori Tominaga

Cast Yutaka Matsushige · Atsuko Maeda · Machiko Ono · Tasuku Emoto

Synopsis When Akira Suei was little, his mother had an affair with a young man who lived next door. Akira's mother and the young man killed themselves by using dynamite. After Akira graduated from high school, he worked at a factory...

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Punk Samurai Slash Down

2018 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Gou Ayano · Masahiro Higashide · Keiko Kitagawa

Synopsis In search of employment and a permanent position and having committed murder the ronin Kake Junoshin tells the Kurokaze ('black wave') Han clan that a religious cult is aiming for their destruction. This gets him in, but he is soon...

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Wonderwall

2020 · Movie · 68 min. · Japan

Direction Yûki Maeda

Cast Ren Sudo · Amane Okayama · Kazunori Mimura · Haya Nakazaki

Synopsis A university orders that old, decrepit Konoe Dormitory be rebuilt, to the opposition of the students who still occupy and maintain it.

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Direction Yuki Saito · Keita Motohashi

Cast Hana Sugisaki · Ryuya Wakaba · Arata Iura · Michiko Kichise

Synopsis Kawauchi Miyabi was once a promising neurosurgeon, but an accident caused damage to Miyabi's brain. She is unable to remember the past 2 years of her life and she will forget everything that happened today when she wakes up the...

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