Screenplay: Akihiko Shiota

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Akihiko Shiota. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Canary

2005 · Movie · 132 min. · Japan

Direction Akihiko Shiota

Cast Hoshi Ishida · Mitsuki Tanimura · Hidetoshi Nishijima · Miyako Koda

Plot Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system, CANARY tells the moving story of two...

6.0

24 votes

6.0

24 votes

Moonlight Whispers

1999 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Akihiko Shiota

Cast Kenji Mizuhashi · Tsugumi · Kôta Kusano · Harumi Inoue

Plot An offbeat study of the adult games that men and women play filtered through the actions of two seemingly innocent Japanese school kids, Satsuki and Takuya, two 17-year-olds who first...

5.7

48 votes

5.7

48 votes

Wet Woman in the Wind

2016 · Movie · 77 min. · Japan

Direction Akihiko Shiota

Cast Yuki Mamiya · Tasuku Nagaoka · Ryushin Tei · Michiko Suzuki

Plot Former playwright Kosuke Takasuke decides to leave the city and live a quiet life off the grid. Things turn hectic when he crosses paths with spunky Shiori. She takes an...

5.5

103 votes

5.5

103 votes

Dororo

2007 · Movie · 135 min. · Japan

Direction Akihiko Shiota

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Kou Shibasaki · Kiichi Nakai · Kumiko Aso

Plot Dororo recounts the particular vendetta Hyakkimaru maintains with the 48 demons that shared most of his body following the satanic pact his own father signed. In his odyssey he will...

5.4

781 votes

5.4

781 votes

Gips

2000 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan

Direction Akihiko Shiota

Cast Hinako Saeki · Machiko Ono · Hiromi Kuronuma · Toru Tezuka

Plot 22-year old secretary Kazuko first bumps into Tamaki on the way back from work. Tamaki is crawling along the sidewalk on crutches at a snail's pace, and stumbles into the...

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Yomigaeri

2002 · Movie · 126 min. · Japan

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Sayonara kuchibiru

2019 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan

Direction Akihiko Shiota

Cast Mugi Kadowaki · Nana Komatsu · Ryô Narita

Plot Haru and Reo perform as musical duo Haru-Reo. With their indie music, they suddenly get popular. Even with their newfound success, they decide to disband the duo. Haru-Reo go on...

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I Just Wanna Hug You

2014 · Movie · 122 min. · Japan

Direction Akihiko Shiota

Cast Keiko Kitagawa · Ryô Nishikido · Jun Fubuki · Aya Hirayama

Plot Tsukasa got into a severe car accident when she was a high school student. She still suffers from the effects of that accident, with memory impairment and needing to use...

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Dokomademo ikô

1999 · Movie · 75 min. · Japan

Direction Akihiko Shiota

Cast Yûsaku Suzuki · Shingo Mizuno · Yuria Haga · Yûya Suzuki

Plot Akira befriends a boy that is not so popular and quite a loner.

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A Heartful of Love

2005 · Movie · 132 min. · Japan

Direction Akihiko Shiota

Cast Hideaki Ito · Mimura · Kin'ya Aikawa · Chieko Baisho

Plot A group of people suddenly find themselves 20 years in the past. Hiroshi, a 30 year-old businessman, regard it as an opportunity to help a young woman from his past,...

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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble (TV)

1996 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Sho Aikawa · Kôyô Maeda · Kenzo Kawarazaki · Yûko Nitô

Plot Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.

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