Ryoko Moriyama

Give It All (1998)

Etsuko - a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the view of a boat gliding gracefully in the sea inspires her to take up the oar. Since she's rejected by her school's ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Itsumichi Isomura
CAST:  Rena Tanaka  •  Mami Shimizu  •  Wakana Chizaki  •  Kirina Mano

Etsuko - a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the view of a boat gliding gracefully in the sea inspires her to take up the oar. Since she's rejected by her school's ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Itsumichi Isomura
CAST:  Rena Tanaka  •  Mami Shimizu  •  Wakana Chizaki  •  Kirina Mano

Blindly in Love (2013)

Kentaro is an unsocial 35-year-old who lives with his parents and has never dated a woman. When Kentaro’s parents set up an arranged marriage interview with a girl named Nahoko and her parents, he falls in love for the first time in his life. However, the pair soon ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masahide Ichii
CAST:  Gen Hoshino  •  Kaho  •  Sei Hiraizumi  •  Ryoko Moriyama

Kentaro is an unsocial 35-year-old who lives with his parents and has never dated a woman. When Kentaro’s parents set up an arranged marriage interview with a girl named Nahoko and her parents, he falls in love for the first time in his life. However, the pair soon ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masahide Ichii
CAST:  Gen Hoshino  •  Kaho  •  Sei Hiraizumi  •  Ryoko Moriyama

When Marnie Was There (2014)

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Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiromasa Yonebayashi
CAST:  Kasumi Arimura  •  Sara Takatsuki  •  Nanako Matsushima  •  Susumu Terajima

Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiromasa Yonebayashi
CAST:  Kasumi Arimura  •  Sara Takatsuki  •  Nanako Matsushima  •  Susumu Terajima

Belle (2021)

Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mamoru Hosoda
CAST:  Tina Tamashiro  •  Shota Sometani  •  Takeru Satoh  •  Lilas Ikuta

Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mamoru Hosoda
CAST:  Tina Tamashiro  •  Shota Sometani  •  Takeru Satoh  •  Lilas Ikuta

Ohaka ga nai! (1998)

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DIRECTION:  Takahito Hara
CAST:  Shima Iwashita  •  Yoshihiko Hakamada  •  Akio Kaneda  •  Ryoko Moriyama

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DIRECTION:  Takahito Hara
CAST:  Shima Iwashita  •  Yoshihiko Hakamada  •  Akio Kaneda  •  Ryoko Moriyama