Screenplay: Aya Watanabe

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


Carole & Tuesday (TV Series)

2019 · Series · 22 min. · Japan

Direction Shin'ichirō Watanabe · Motonobu Hori

Plot Fifty years have passed since mankind began migrating to the new frontier: Mars. It's an age where most culture is produced by AI, and people are content to be passive...

6.9

247 votes

6.9

247 votes

A Gentle Breeze in the Village

2007 · Movie · 121 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast Kaho · Masaki Okada · Erisa Yanagi · Shôko Fujimura

Plot Eighth-grader Soyo lives in a very small rural village of Japan where the primary and middle school share a building for all of 6 students. They spend a happy childhood...

6.7

47 votes

6.7

47 votes

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish

2003 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan

Direction Isshin Inudô

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Chizuru Ikewaki · Juri Ueno · Hirofumi Arai

Plot Tsuneo is a university student, while he is on the street, a baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him...

6.3

28 votes

6.3

28 votes

La maison de Himiko

2005 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan

Direction Isshin Inudô

Cast Kou Shibasaki · Jô Odagiri · Min Tanaka · Hirokazu Inoue

Plot Saori is hired to take care of her estranged father. He lives in an old people's home for gays and is terminally ill. At first she helps out only for...

6.3

28 votes

6.3

28 votes

The Long Goodbye (TV Miniseries)

2014 · Movie · min. · Japan

Direction Kentaro Horikirizono

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Rina Ohta · Gou Ayano · Akira Emoto

Plot Based on the novel "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler, published 1953. Set in Tokyo during the 1950's. Tamotsu is suspected of murdering his actress wife Shizuka Harada. He flees...

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Joint Burial

2015 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Tatsuo Kobayashi

Cast Mugi Kadowaki · Jô Odagiri · Amane Okayama · Minami Sakurai

Plot In 1868, as the Tokugawa Shogunate comes to an end after 300 years, three young men join the Shougitai resistance movement.

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Thirty Lies or So

2004 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Kentarô Ôtani

Cast Kippei Shiina · Miki Nakatani · Satoshi Tsumabuki · Seiichi Tanabe

Plot "Yaku san-ju no uso", otherwise known as "Thirty Lies Or So", is about four men and two women who plot to defraud a mystery company. Each character tries to deceive...

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Koi wo Surunara Nidome ga Joto (TV Series)

2024 · Series · min. · Japan

Direction Yuka Yasukawa

Cast Aroha Takamatsu · Robin Furuya · Makoto Hasegawa

Plot Business editor Miyata Akihiro invites University professor Iwanaga Takashi to write a column for his publication. It's not their first encounter since they used to be star-crossed lovers way back...

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Wonderwall

2020 · Movie · 68 min. · Japan

Direction Yûki Maeda

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

Plot 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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Carnation (TV Series)

2011 · Series · 15 min. · Japan

Cast Machiko Ono · Elliott Ryan Clopton · Tarô Suruga · Yumi Asou

Plot Based on the life of the fashion designer Ayako Koshino in Kishiwada, Osaka

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