Masaaki Kudo

I'm Crazy (2019)

Yuki has decided to quit pursuing music as a career. One day he meets composer Michiko and her son Kengo who has a pervasive developmental disorder. Yuki comes to be Kengo's babysitter due to strong pressure from his boss at work which leads to a deepening ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masaaki Kudo
CAST:  Yutaro Furutachi  •  Yuki Sakurai  •  Kiyoteru Sasaki

Yuki has decided to quit pursuing music as a career. One day he meets composer Michiko and her son Kengo who has a pervasive developmental disorder. Yuki comes to be Kengo's babysitter due to strong pressure from his boss at work which leads to a deepening ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masaaki Kudo
CAST:  Yutaro Furutachi  •  Yuki Sakurai  •  Kiyoteru Sasaki

Unprecedented (2021)

It is impossible to comprehensively map the ultimate extent of the damage wrought by the waves of the corona pandemic in all the layers of the society. It does not, however, require a lot of guesswork to see the links between the steeply increased numbers of corona ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masaaki Kudo
CAST:  Yusuke Takahashi  •  Manabu Kurita  •  Ayano Ogura  •  Chie Tsuji

It is impossible to comprehensively map the ultimate extent of the damage wrought by the waves of the corona pandemic in all the layers of the society. It does not, however, require a lot of guesswork to see the links between the steeply increased numbers of corona ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masaaki Kudo
CAST:  Yusuke Takahashi  •  Manabu Kurita  •  Ayano Ogura  •  Chie Tsuji

A Far Shore (2023)

An unadorned perspective on impoverished life in Okinawa, an island in southern Japan whose modern history was tainted by the bloody battle for the Pacific. 17-year-old Aoi works as a nightclub hostess in order to earn rent money and to provide for her little boy. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masaaki Kudo
CAST:  Kotone Hanase  •  Yumemi Ishida  •  Yoshiro Sakuma  •  Ayano Ogura

An unadorned perspective on impoverished life in Okinawa, an island in southern Japan whose modern history was tainted by the bloody battle for the Pacific. 17-year-old Aoi works as a nightclub hostess in order to earn rent money and to provide for her little boy. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masaaki Kudo
CAST:  Kotone Hanase  •  Yumemi Ishida  •  Yoshiro Sakuma  •  Ayano Ogura