Arata Iura
10 titles
Filmography
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After Life
(1999)Hirokazu Kore-eda’s revelatory international breakthrough finds the recently deceased in a limbo realm where they must select a single cherished moment from their life for them to take into the next world. This bittersweet fantasia serves as a panoramic vision of the human experience and a profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze time.

Tokyo Cowboy
(2024)A Japanese business man goes on an unwitting journey of self-discovery when he takes a company trip from Japan to a Montana cattle ranch.

Air Doll
(2009)A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul, immerses herself in the living world, and falls in love with a video store clerk.

Unnatural
Mikoto Misumi is a pathologist at UDI Lab. She can't stand neglecting unnatural deaths.

True Mothers
(2020)The orderly existence of a family with an adopted 6-year-old is shattered by the arrival of a woman claiming to be the child’s biological mother.

From Miyamoto to You
(2019)Sparks fly when an inexperienced young salesman meets a woman through work. But the couple faces a bumpy road ahead in this drama based on a manga.

Dearest
An elite businesswoman becomes a material witness to a murder somehow connected to a missing persons case that occurred in her home town 15 years ago.

Parasite in Love
(2021)A social outcast with a paralyzing fear of dirt finds the remedy to his loneliness in a high school girl suffering from her own self-isolating phobia.

Talentless TAKANO
She looks super competent at work but has no idea what she's doing. He seems like a mess, but he's great at his job. Together — they make quite a team.

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a Confessional
(2025)Manga artist Rohan Kishibe visits a church in Venice and hears a masked man confess that he accidentally killed a vagrant and was cast a curse that brings him despair when he is most happy. Rohan becomes engrossed in this mysterious confession and uses his special ability to turn people into books and read their memories and experiences… Eventually, he finds that he is under the same curse.