Hideto Iwai

Go Find a Psychic! (2009)

Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while for the rest of the year they hide their abilities. Yone Sakurai is a program director for a psychic variety TV show ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Katsuyuki Motohiro
CAST:  Hiroki Miyake  •  Masashi Suwa  •  Osamu Tsuji  •  Kotaro Shiga

Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while for the rest of the year they hide their abilities. Yone Sakurai is a program director for a psychic variety TV show ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Katsuyuki Motohiro
CAST:  Hiroki Miyake  •  Masashi Suwa  •  Osamu Tsuji  •  Kotaro Shiga

The Kirishima Thing (2012)

A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how his disappearance affects every person in school.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daihachi Yoshida
CAST:  Ai Hashimoto  •  Ryunosuke Kamiki  •  Suzuka Ohgo  •  Masahiro Higashide

A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how his disappearance affects every person in school.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daihachi Yoshida
CAST:  Ai Hashimoto  •  Ryunosuke Kamiki  •  Suzuka Ohgo  •  Masahiro Higashide

A Bolt from the Blue (2014)

Haruo has a dream to become the best magician, but, so far, he is only a marginal magician. Haruo also doesn't have parents. He then goes back 40 years in time to Asakusa, Tokyo. There, he meets his parents when they were young and he learns the secret of his birth.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gekidan Hitori
CAST:  Yo Oizumi  •  Ko Shibasaki  •  Gekidan Hitori  •  Takashi Sasano

Haruo has a dream to become the best magician, but, so far, he is only a marginal magician. Haruo also doesn't have parents. He then goes back 40 years in time to Asakusa, Tokyo. There, he meets his parents when they were young and he learns the secret of his birth.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gekidan Hitori
CAST:  Yo Oizumi  •  Ko Shibasaki  •  Gekidan Hitori  •  Takashi Sasano

Someone (2016)

5 university students gather to exchange information on their job search activities. They encourage each other and post their thoughts & worries on Twitter, but behind that they have a lot on their minds. Takuto Ninomiya observes those around him. His roommate ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daisuke Miura
CAST:  Takeru Satoh  •  Masaki Suda  •  Kasumi Arimura  •  Fumi Nikaido

5 university students gather to exchange information on their job search activities. They encourage each other and post their thoughts & worries on Twitter, but behind that they have a lot on their minds. Takuto Ninomiya observes those around him. His roommate ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daisuke Miura
CAST:  Takeru Satoh  •  Masaki Suda  •  Kasumi Arimura  •  Fumi Nikaido

The Long Excuse (2016)

A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Miwa Nishikawa
CAST:  Masahiro Motoki  •  Eri Fukatsu  •  Keiko Horiuchi  •  Haru Kuroki

A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Miwa Nishikawa
CAST:  Masahiro Motoki  •  Eri Fukatsu  •  Keiko Horiuchi  •  Haru Kuroki

Parasyte: Part 1 (2014)

Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm. Together they grow and co-exist, all the while the other aliens are making meals of other humans; Shin feels he must ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takashi Yamazaki
CAST:  Shota Sometani  •  Eri Fukatsu  •  Sadawo Abe  •  Ai Hashimoto

Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm. Together they grow and co-exist, all the while the other aliens are making meals of other humans; Shin feels he must ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takashi Yamazaki
CAST:  Shota Sometani  •  Eri Fukatsu  •  Sadawo Abe  •  Ai Hashimoto

108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba (2019)

Screenwriter Goro Kaiba is horrified to learn via Facebook that his wife Ayako is having an affair. Furthermore, her post about the affair has received 108 likes. Absolutely furious, Goro Kaiba contemplates divorcing his wife, but he estimates he will have to pay ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suzuki Matsuo
CAST:  Suzuki Matsuo  •  Miho Nakayama  •  Natsuko Akiyama  •  Hideto Iwai

Screenwriter Goro Kaiba is horrified to learn via Facebook that his wife Ayako is having an affair. Furthermore, her post about the affair has received 108 likes. Absolutely furious, Goro Kaiba contemplates divorcing his wife, but he estimates he will have to pay ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suzuki Matsuo
CAST:  Suzuki Matsuo  •  Miho Nakayama  •  Natsuko Akiyama  •  Hideto Iwai

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DIRECTION:  Hideto Iwai
CAST:  Hideto Iwai  •  Tsuyoshi Muro  •  Toshiaki Inomata  •  Yuri Kawakami

Suddenly Reading! (2020)

Produced by Hideto Iwai "Suddenly Reading a Book! Takako Matsu x Ryunosuke Kamiki x Takanori Goto x Koji Okura Second installment of the show. Iwai Hideto is the moderator & director of the read-through. The concept of this is a challenging impromptu script ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideto Iwai
CAST:  Takako Matsu  •  Ryunosuke Kamiki  •  Takenori Goto  •  Koji Ohkura

Produced by Hideto Iwai "Suddenly Reading a Book! Takako Matsu x Ryunosuke Kamiki x Takanori Goto x Koji Okura Second installment of the show. Iwai Hideto is the moderator & director of the read-through. The concept of this is a challenging impromptu script ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideto Iwai
CAST:  Takako Matsu  •  Ryunosuke Kamiki  •  Takenori Goto  •  Koji Ohkura

くじけないで手紙を書いた (2011)

The poet Koichi Masuno always goes to his friends to give them his poetry collection "Kujikena", which is about to be published.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kyoshi Sugita
CAST:  Hara Mariko  •  Hideto Iwai  •  Gaku Kaneko  •  Mari Okazaki

The poet Koichi Masuno always goes to his friends to give them his poetry collection "Kujikena", which is about to be published.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kyoshi Sugita
CAST:  Hara Mariko  •  Hideto Iwai  •  Gaku Kaneko  •  Mari Okazaki

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DIRECTION:  Hideto Iwai
CAST:  Marika Ito  •  Natsuko Akiyama  •  Katsumi Takahashi  •  Hideto Iwai