Yuri Mizutani

Ping Pong (2002)

As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long best friend ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fumihiko Sori
CAST:  Yosuke Kubozuka  •  Sam Lee  •  Shido Nakamura  •  Naoto Takenaka

As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long best friend ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fumihiko Sori
CAST:  Yosuke Kubozuka  •  Sam Lee  •  Shido Nakamura  •  Naoto Takenaka

The Stars Converge (2004)

Chirusoku Summer, the film set in the sister cities of Pusan, South Korea and the city of Shimonoseki-shi, Yamaguchi. During the Summer of 2003, four girls from Shimonoseki-shi, Yamaguchi travels to Pusan, South Korea for a sports festival and one of them fall in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kiyoshi Sasabe
CAST:  Juri Ueno  •  Yuri Mizutani  •  Asami Katsura  •  Yasuyo Mimura

Chirusoku Summer, the film set in the sister cities of Pusan, South Korea and the city of Shimonoseki-shi, Yamaguchi. During the Summer of 2003, four girls from Shimonoseki-shi, Yamaguchi travels to Pusan, South Korea for a sports festival and one of them fall in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kiyoshi Sasabe
CAST:  Juri Ueno  •  Yuri Mizutani  •  Asami Katsura  •  Yasuyo Mimura

Hanako of the Toilet (1998)

When a young girl discovers that her new middle school is the same one her sister mysteriously disappeared from eleven years before. She and her new friends join forces to fight the evil force that threatens them all.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukihiko Tsutsumi
CAST:  Eri Fuse  •  Ai Maeda  •  Maya Hamaoka  •  Hideyuki Kasahara

When a young girl discovers that her new middle school is the same one her sister mysteriously disappeared from eleven years before. She and her new friends join forces to fight the evil force that threatens them all.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukihiko Tsutsumi
CAST:  Eri Fuse  •  Ai Maeda  •  Maya Hamaoka  •  Hideyuki Kasahara

I Am a Thousand Winds (2004)

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DIRECTION:  Kim Soo-Kil
CAST:  Mayuko Nishiyama  •  Takashi Itō  •  Kaho Minami  •  Yuri Mizutani

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DIRECTION:  Kim Soo-Kil
CAST:  Mayuko Nishiyama  •  Takashi Itō  •  Kaho Minami  •  Yuri Mizutani

Curtain Call (2005)

Kaori is pursuing her career as a journalist for a magazine with great enthusiasm. But as a result of an article she wrote, she is sent to work for a community magazine at Fukuoka. An anonymous letter arrives, which puts her in contact with an old and forgotten ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kiyoshi Sasabe
CAST:  Ayumi Ito  •  Takashi Fujii  •  Mayu Tsuruta  •  Anzu Nagai

Kaori is pursuing her career as a journalist for a magazine with great enthusiasm. But as a result of an article she wrote, she is sent to work for a community magazine at Fukuoka. An anonymous letter arrives, which puts her in contact with an old and forgotten ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kiyoshi Sasabe
CAST:  Ayumi Ito  •  Takashi Fujii  •  Mayu Tsuruta  •  Anzu Nagai

Clock Store's Girl (2013)

The story is about the emotional and spiritual exchange between an elderly watchmaker and a cheerful and kind young woman who lost her mother in the tsunami of the Great Tohoku Earthquake. The woman asks the watchmaker to repair a wristwatch, which is a precious ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daisuke Yamamuro
CAST:  Erika Sawajiri  •  Jun Kunimura  •  Fumino Kimura  •  Kenta Kiritani

The story is about the emotional and spiritual exchange between an elderly watchmaker and a cheerful and kind young woman who lost her mother in the tsunami of the Great Tohoku Earthquake. The woman asks the watchmaker to repair a wristwatch, which is a precious ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daisuke Yamamuro
CAST:  Erika Sawajiri  •  Jun Kunimura  •  Fumino Kimura  •  Kenta Kiritani