Matomu Onda

Rain of Light (2001)

This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed themselves up in a mountainous cabin in the dead of winter. By the time the police finally caught up with them, it was ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Banmei Takahashi
CAST:  Masato Hagiwara  •  Ren Osugi  •  Sansei Shiomi  •  Mansaku Ikeuchi

This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed themselves up in a mountainous cabin in the dead of winter. By the time the police finally caught up with them, it was ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Banmei Takahashi
CAST:  Masato Hagiwara  •  Ren Osugi  •  Sansei Shiomi  •  Mansaku Ikeuchi

Doing Time (2002)

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoichi Sai
CAST:  Tsutomu Yamazaki  •  Teruyuki Kagawa  •  Tomorowo Taguchi  •  Yutaka Matsushige

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoichi Sai
CAST:  Tsutomu Yamazaki  •  Teruyuki Kagawa  •  Tomorowo Taguchi  •  Yutaka Matsushige

Lizard Baby (2004)

Horror screenwriter, Umeki, has writer's block. He goes with his pregnant wife, Akiko, to a check-up and is struck with an incredible idea - a horror story about a woman who gives birth to a reptile! Despite his wife's disgust, Umeki goes ahead with the screenplay, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoshihiro Nakamura
CAST:  Kurume Arisaka  •  Mansaku Ikeuchi  •  Matomu Onda  •  Kōichi Koshimura

Horror screenwriter, Umeki, has writer's block. He goes with his pregnant wife, Akiko, to a check-up and is struck with an incredible idea - a horror story about a woman who gives birth to a reptile! Despite his wife's disgust, Umeki goes ahead with the screenplay, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoshihiro Nakamura
CAST:  Kurume Arisaka  •  Mansaku Ikeuchi  •  Matomu Onda  •  Kōichi Koshimura