Hana Matsumoto
Also Known As: まつもと はな
Biography: She is a Japanese director, writer and former actress.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
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Dog in a Sidecar
Overview: The film begins in the present, with its heroine, Kaoru, a grown-up woman working as a real-estate agent, while helping out the folksy proprietor of a neighborhood fishing pond. There she meets a shy girl who needs her help baiting a hook and reminds her of herself in the fourth grade.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-23
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The Legacy of the Sun
Overview: Set during the end of World War II, Major Mashiba (Masato Sakai) and others receive an order to hide 200 trillion yen worth of treasures. These treasures are to help rebuild the country after the war. 20 girls are mobilized to carry out the mission.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-27
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The Summer of Stickleback
Overview: Set in Kyoto, 1990. Mizuho Oshima is a high school girl who hates her alcoholic mom, adores her father, and has a crush on school swim team member Sho Sugimoto. Her father lives with another women, but Mizuho hopes to reunite her family. Her mother then takes up with an Amerian soldier named Charlie and they become an item. This crushes Mizuho's hopes of reuniting her family. Mizuho then seduces her mother's lover ...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-14
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Love Is Possession
Overview: This three-part omnibus spins tales about love featuring surreal characters like ghosts and eccentrics.
Genres: Romance Drama Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-12
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Suzuki Sensei
Overview: Teacher Akira Suzuki breaks away from long-held customs and norms at his school. He tries hard to have the ideal classroom by using his own "Suzuki method". The new semester begins. His homeroom 2-A class is about to have a student council election and preparations for a school festival. A man then takes a female student hostage...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-12
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Love and Other Cults
Overview: Ai's mother sends her to live with a cult commune, where she remains for seven years. After the cult is broken up by the police, Ai struggles to fit in with society.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-15
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Screaming Class
Overview: Kana is an ordinary high school student. One day, her photo is selected for a magazine and, because of this, Kana receives attention from popular student attention Rio. The attention though is not the kind Kana wanted. Kana is bullied by Rio and her friends. A rumor exists that a ghost exists in the old school building. The ghost is able to grant someone's wish, but that person will lose something important to them. The ghost is a former student named Yomi, who died in an accident 12 years ago. Kana decides to go see the ghost. The next day, Kana is a member of Rio's group, but Kana's friend Erika is now bullied. More tragedy awaits …
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-14
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Utopia Sounds
Overview: Junichi, a seasoned sound mixer, was trying to look after his dying wife. Shaken by her illness, Junichi goes out to where he and his wife had traveled to 30 years ago. In a different place, Chika and Yukko visit Yukari's home for her birthday. An exciting time for the girls alone in the house. But their friendship begins to crack when an unexpected guest arrives. Two different stories collide in an unexpected way traveling between past and present, imagination and reality.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-10
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Ju-On: Black Ghost
Overview: The supernatural grudge manifests itself by way of a strange cyst growing in the body of a young woman, slowly draining all life from her in revenge for... what?
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-27
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