DOWNTOWN UTOPIA

2023  |  78min  |  CinemaScope  |  5.1ch
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Written and Directed by YUKI OTSUKA
Music by MIHO NOMURA
Edited by STANLEY DICK
Sound Recordist PAUL DOROSHEVICH
Director of Photography MIKAEL SENNINGE
Produced by YOSHIYUKI KIMURA
Cast  MIYU YOSHIMOTO KEISAKU KIMURA HIROAKI MIYAKAWA HIROKI NAKAJIMA KEISUKE HORIBE SHINSUKE KATO NOZOMI MURAOKA RYUSUKE KOMAKINE HIDEKAZU ICHINOSE TOMOKA NAKAGAWA MAI KOITO ALISA SAKAMAKI SHOKEN KUNIMOTO and KEIJI MATSUDA

Naomi Kishi (24), who has a habit of self-harm, decides to leave her family home and controlling mother. She goes to a downtown area where she enters an old-fashioned coffee shop. She eats and drinks without paying and is caught, however the manager of the coffee shop does not take her to task, and even offers her a place to live. She begins living in a share house in the downtown area, and gradually regains her true self through contact with unique people from a world far from hers.

THE EDGE OF SIN

2015  |  120min  |  CinemaScope  |  5.1ch
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Written and Directed by YUKI OTSUKA
Cast SEIYOU UCHINO MIYU YOSHIMOTO MITSUKI TANIMURA WAKANA AOI NARUMI UNO KEISUKE HORIBE GO RIJYUU MASAYA KATO MIO IMADA KANA KITA RENA TAKEDA SHINYA KIYOTSUKA

Ando (Seiyou Uchino) can't accept the circumstances of his daughter Kana's suicide. Kana fell from the ledge of a school building. Ando attempts to find out the truth behind his daughter's death. He becomes suspicious of his daughter's former classmate, Saki (Miyu Yoshimoto). Saki isn't a typical high school student and aspires to work in show business. She dominates her high school with her charisma.

FLARE

2014  |  94min  |  CinemaScope  |  5.1ch
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Directed by YUKI OTSUKA 
Cast MAYUKO FUKUDA VALENTIN BONHOMME ALICE HIROSE HYUNRI SERA RINKA HIROAKI MIYAKAWA MITSUKI TANIMURA MASAYA KATO SAYAKA YAMAGUCHI

A meeting in the middle of Tokyo between Jan, a middle age French photographer who is living his life carelessly, and Flare, a 17 years old runaway girl with a complicated family background. Charmed by Jan's works, a budding of love soon developed in Flare. While attracted to the wild life of Jan, she holds onto complicated feelings. With this swaying conflicts inside of her, it painted a vivid picture of growing up in this Japan with a complicated French love story. 

SOUP

2012  |  118min  |  CinemaScope  |  5.1ch
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Written and Directed by YUKI OTSUKA
Cast KATSUHISA NAMASE MANAMI KONISHI YUIKO KARIYA SYUUHEI NOMURA ALICE HIROSE AI HASHIMOTO SUZUKA OHGO MASATO IRIE KEIKO HORIUCHI SERA RINKA KEISUKE HORIBE TETSUHIRO IKEDA MITSUKI TANIMURA SAYAKA YAMAGUCHI AYUMI ITO AKI HADA ARATA FURUTA HIROKI MATSUKATA

A 50-year-old salaryman named Kenichi Shibuya has been divorced for five years and has an awkward relationship with his daughter Mika. The day before Mika's 15th birthday, he is killed by a bolt of lightning on the side of the road along with one of his superiors from the office, Ayase. In the afterlife, they're told they can be reincarnated if they drink a "legendary soup", but they'll lose all memories from their former life in the process. Refusing to accept the idea of forgetting his daughter, Shibuya instead tries to unravel the secrets of the soup by wandering around the afterlife with Ayase as he attempts to continue his fatherly role from the other side.