Hideta Takahata

Hideta Takahata is a Japanese filmmaker.

The Hotel Venus (2004)

In a strange alienated world there is a secret hotel in a shabby diner called the Venus Café, harboring some unusual people where compelling secrets lie in each resident's heart. Torturing secrets that have broken their emotional boundaries in the past. In this ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideta Takahata
CAST:  Tsuyoshi Kusanagi  •  Miki Nakatani  •  Teruyuki Kagawa  •  Cho Eun-ji

In a strange alienated world there is a secret hotel in a shabby diner called the Venus Café, harboring some unusual people where compelling secrets lie in each resident's heart. Torturing secrets that have broken their emotional boundaries in the past. In this ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideta Takahata
CAST:  Tsuyoshi Kusanagi  •  Miki Nakatani  •  Teruyuki Kagawa  •  Cho Eun-ji

Aka Medaka (2015)

One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was inspired as a little boy to become a rakugoka after seeing the legendary Danshi. He had found his calling. After his resistant ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideta Takahata
CAST:  Kazunari Ninomiya  •  Takeshi Kitano  •  Gaku Hamada  •  Hiroko Yakushimaru

One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was inspired as a little boy to become a rakugoka after seeing the legendary Danshi. He had found his calling. After his resistant ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideta Takahata
CAST:  Kazunari Ninomiya  •  Takeshi Kitano  •  Gaku Hamada  •  Hiroko Yakushimaru

Ueno Juri and the Five Bags (2009)

The series features Ueno taking on five roles in five episodes. As the title suggests, each episode involves a bag of some kind, such as a guitar case or a mysterious delivery package.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nobuhiro Yamashita  •  Michael Arias  •  Hideta Takahata  •  Takuma Takasaki  •  Koji Hagiuda
CAST:  Juri Ueno

The series features Ueno taking on five roles in five episodes. As the title suggests, each episode involves a bag of some kind, such as a guitar case or a mysterious delivery package.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nobuhiro Yamashita  •  Michael Arias  •  Hideta Takahata  •  Takuma Takasaki  •  Koji Hagiuda
CAST:  Juri Ueno

Every Trick In The Book (2021)

Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business in Toyama Prefecture, who comes across a mysterious counterfeit bill and has his life targeted by underworld kingpin ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideta Takahata
CAST:  Tatsuya Fujiwara  •  Shunsuke Kazama  •  Tao Tsuchiya  •  Nanase Nishino

Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business in Toyama Prefecture, who comes across a mysterious counterfeit bill and has his life targeted by underworld kingpin ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideta Takahata
CAST:  Tatsuya Fujiwara  •  Shunsuke Kazama  •  Tao Tsuchiya  •  Nanase Nishino

analog (2023)

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DIRECTION:  Hideta Takahata
CAST:  Kazunari Ninomiya  •  Haru

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DIRECTION:  Hideta Takahata
CAST:  Kazunari Ninomiya  •  Haru