Cinematography: Osame Maruike

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Osame Maruike. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Sleeping Man

1996 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

7.1

22 votes

7.1

22 votes

Bonfire at Dawn

2019 · Movie · 72 min. · Japan

Direction Koichi Doi

Cast Motonari Okura · Yasunari Okura · Raiju Kamata · Akira Sakata

Plot The Okura family has 650 years of history as performers of Japan's traditional stage art, Kyogen. One winter, Motonari Okura and his son, Yasunari, head off to undertake training in...

5.6

33 votes

5.6

33 votes

The Panda Story

1988 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan

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Chibusa

1993 · Movie · 57 min. · Japan

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Kaoru Kobayashi · Mai Oikawa · Kumija Kim · Naoto Takenaka

Plot Based on the novel of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin.

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Mo no shigoto

1991 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan

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Domain of Murder (Hello Porcupine)

1991 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuo Matsumoto

Cast Johnny Okura · Setsuko Karasuma · Ren Osugi · Toshiaki Karasawa

Plot The story of a detective agency that sniffs the incident and sets out to make a profit, but eventually works hard for justice. Nanase Goro, who is good at staking...

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Video Girl Ai

1991 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Ryu Kaneda

Cast Ken Osawa · Kaori Sakagami · Hiromi Hiraguchi · Naoki Hosaka

Plot Live-action film version of "Video Girl Ai" manga.

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Karate Cop 5

1987 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

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Uhohho tankentai

1986 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Yukiyo Toake · Kunie Tanaka · Masatoshi Murakami · Shinji Motoyama

Plot Enokoto Entrance is an interviewer and writer. There are Taro Junior High School student and Jiro of elementary school student and two children between husband and Kazuya who are research...

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Bonds

1998 · Movie · 123 min. · Japan

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Ken Watanabe · Yumi Asou · Yôsuke Saitô

Plot Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel...

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No Life King

1989 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Ryo Takayama · Neko Saito · Nobuo Nakamura · Issei Ogata

Plot In a world slowly overrun with technology the line between reality and virtuality begins to blur as not only the younger generation, but also the older one is becoming absorbed....

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Ruby, the Thief (Mysterious Thief Ruby)

1988 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Makoto Wada

Cast Kyôko Koizumi · Hiroyuki Sanada · Kumi Mizuno · Masumi Okada

Plot Toru Hayashi lives alone with his mother. Young salaryman whose life is staggeringly banal, he is what we can call a man stuck, until a pretty young woman moves into...

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Nurse Call

1992 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Shunichi Nagasaki

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Yuki Matsushita · Gitan Ôtsuru · Atsuro Watabe

Plot "Nurse Call" deals with the harried, overworked lives of Japan's nurses. Based on the book by Keiko Nobumoto who used to be a hospital nurse.

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