Daiken Okudaira
5 titles
Filmography
5 results

Cloud
(2024)A searing portrait of digital greed and vengeance, this subversive thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa concerns an ambitious young factory worker who side-hustles in the murky realm of black-market reselling, cheating buyers and sellers alike. But after a series of mysterious and sinister incidents occur, he begins to suspect his former victims could be plotting the ultimate revenge.

MOTHER
(2020)Shuhei’s erratic mother feels threatened when he starts to awaken to a world beyond her distorted control, sending the family hurtling towards tragedy.

The Greatest Teacher
Murdered on graduation day, a teacher wakes up one year earlier and tries to figure out which of her 30 students is a future killer.

Mr. Mikami's Classroom
Mikami joins Japan’s elite bureaucracy in the Ministry of Education hoping to strengthen critical thinking skills among students, but soon learns that his ministry is more interested in the goals of self-preservation. When Mikami gets "exiled" to a private high school on a ministry program, he represents both the bureaucrats who helped create the system and the teachers suffering from it. So Mikami leads a group of high school seniors to battle power and reform the education system.

The Village
(2023)In a once-scenic village now dominated by a vast trash disposal site, a young man yearns to break free from a cruel fate tying him to the very grounds.