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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