Yutaro Watanabe

Forget Me Not (2015)

Takashi Hayama is a third year high school student. He falls in love with Azusa Oribe at first sight and they begin to date. One day, Azusa tells Takashi "people who meet me, forget about me several hours later." Takashi doesn't believe Azusa, but by chance he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kei Horie
CAST:  Nijiro Murakami  •  Akari Hayami  •  Yoshikazu Nishikawa  •  Yutaro Watanabe

Takashi Hayama is a third year high school student. He falls in love with Azusa Oribe at first sight and they begin to date. One day, Azusa tells Takashi "people who meet me, forget about me several hours later." Takashi doesn't believe Azusa, but by chance he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kei Horie
CAST:  Nijiro Murakami  •  Akari Hayami  •  Yoshikazu Nishikawa  •  Yutaro Watanabe

The Werewolf Game: Prison Break (2016)

Akari Inui and other students are kidnapped and imprisoned. They are forced to take part in a game to kill and survive. The last survivor will receive one hundred million yen.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shinya Ayabe
CAST:  Riria Kojima  •  Yutaro Watanabe  •  Kasumi Yamaya  •  Naoya Shimizu

Akari Inui and other students are kidnapped and imprisoned. They are forced to take part in a game to kill and survive. The last survivor will receive one hundred million yen.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shinya Ayabe
CAST:  Riria Kojima  •  Yutaro Watanabe  •  Kasumi Yamaya  •  Naoya Shimizu

Flightless Bird & Merry-Go-Round (2015)

Kotori Haneda is a university student interning at a publishing house. While doing her internship, she is partnered with another intern named Eba Shimazaki; the two start a relationship, but her happiness is not to last.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yusuke Ichikawa
CAST:  Maya Okano  •  Ryo Narita  •  Momo  •  Koharu Matsunaga

Kotori Haneda is a university student interning at a publishing house. While doing her internship, she is partnered with another intern named Eba Shimazaki; the two start a relationship, but her happiness is not to last.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yusuke Ichikawa
CAST:  Maya Okano  •  Ryo Narita  •  Momo  •  Koharu Matsunaga

Itsumo Tsukiyo ni Kome no Meshi (2018)

After the disappearance of her single mother, a Tokyo high school student goes to Niigata to begin work at her mother’s izakaya restaurant.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ayaka Kato
CAST:  Aina Yamada  •  Soko Wada  •  Yumiko Takahashi  •  Yutaro Watanabe

After the disappearance of her single mother, a Tokyo high school student goes to Niigata to begin work at her mother’s izakaya restaurant.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ayaka Kato
CAST:  Aina Yamada  •  Soko Wada  •  Yumiko Takahashi  •  Yutaro Watanabe

Stare (2020)

Dead bodies with eyeballs ruptured are continuously found. Their direct causes of death are heart attacks and they acted like they were possessed right before their deaths. Mizuki is a university student. Her friend dies in front of her. Meanwhile, Haruo’s younger ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Otsuichi
CAST:  Marie Iitoyo  •  Yu Inaba  •  Shota Sometani  •  Shugo Oshinari

Dead bodies with eyeballs ruptured are continuously found. Their direct causes of death are heart attacks and they acted like they were possessed right before their deaths. Mizuki is a university student. Her friend dies in front of her. Meanwhile, Haruo’s younger ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Otsuichi
CAST:  Marie Iitoyo  •  Yu Inaba  •  Shota Sometani  •  Shugo Oshinari

ZOKKI (2021)

Five loosely connected storylines concerning the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puerile potty jokes that punctuate the characters' daily (and in one eerie case, nightly) encounters.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takayuki Yamada  •  Naoto Takenaka  •  Takumi Saitoh
CAST:  Riho Yoshioka  •  Fuku Suzuki  •  Shinnosuke Mitsushima  •  Yurina Yanagi

Five loosely connected storylines concerning the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puerile potty jokes that punctuate the characters' daily (and in one eerie case, nightly) encounters.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takayuki Yamada  •  Naoto Takenaka  •  Takumi Saitoh
CAST:  Riho Yoshioka  •  Fuku Suzuki  •  Shinnosuke Mitsushima  •  Yurina Yanagi

Baseball Players Acting On The Stage! (2018)

At the baseball club of Yame Kita High School in the southern part of Fukuoka Prefecture, fierce competition for positions was always fought. In the qualifying that led to the spring selection tournament (Koshien), the team was beginning to get jerky due to the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Setsuo Nakayama
CAST:  Yutaro Watanabe  •  Kyoka Shibata  •  Daichi Funatsu  •  Shunpei Kawagoshi

At the baseball club of Yame Kita High School in the southern part of Fukuoka Prefecture, fierce competition for positions was always fought. In the qualifying that led to the spring selection tournament (Koshien), the team was beginning to get jerky due to the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Setsuo Nakayama
CAST:  Yutaro Watanabe  •  Kyoka Shibata  •  Daichi Funatsu  •  Shunpei Kawagoshi