Movies: Akiko Monou

  • 2003
    Lost in Translation

    Lost in Translation (2003)

    Lost in Translation

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    Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America....

    Lost in Translation
  • 2008
    The Ramen Girl

    The Ramen Girl (2008)

    The Ramen Girl

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    An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master....

    The Ramen Girl
  • 1998
    Samurai Fiction

    Samurai Fiction (1998)

    Samurai Fiction

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    A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword....

    Samurai Fiction
  • 2007
    United Red Army

    United Red Army (2007)

    United Red Army

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    Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mountains to conduct a training camp. Ideology devolves into despotism, and the URA's leaders begin to arbitrarily persecute their followers, a harrowing ordeal t...

    United Red Army
  • 2009
    Tetsuo: The Bullet Man

    Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009)

    Tetsuo: The Bullet Man

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    When the son of an American man and a Japanese women is killed, the man transforms into Tetsuo....

    Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
  • 2008
    After School

    After School (2008)

    After School

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    A middle school teacher, Jinno, is friends with a young couple that is about to have a baby. But on the eve of the birth, the father, Kimura, disappears. Then, a hired private detective appears and ask Jinno's help to find Kimura....

    After School
  • 2003
    Kakuto

    Kakuto (2003)

    Kakuto

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    A very energetic, fresh and skilful début in DV from young Tokyo actor and model. Hanging out, clubbing and drugging, a young band of friends get way in over their heads when they inadvertently lose a stash of drugs they're meant to deal to their fri...

    Kakuto
  • 2009
    Zero nendai zenkei

    Zero nendai zenkei (2009)

    Zero nendai zenkei

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    Kumiko Hoshizaki’s “Akane Sasu Heya” is the story of Maki, a 20-something temp who is sick of her boring job and life in general. The rather bizarre solution she comes up with is to conceive a child behind her boyfriend’s back. Makoto Nagahisa offers...

    Zero nendai zenkei
  • 1995
    聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ?

    聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ? (1995)

    聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ?

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    A foreign student from Taiwan, Mr. Bell, attends language school in Japan and meets Miss Sato there. He falls in love with her, but doesn't dare to open his heart to her. Nevertheless, on Christmas night miracles do happen....

    聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ?
  • 2006
    Colors

    Colors (2006)

    Colors

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    Colors
  • 2004
    No-Pants Girls: Movie Box-ing2

    No-Pants Girls: Movie Box-ing2 (2004)

    No-Pants Girls: Movie Box-ing2

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    No Pants Girls is a 3 segment film directed by Sono Sion, Shô Tsukikawa and Reiko Saito. They deal with girls discovering sexuality, through their innocent eyes. The actors and actresses are the same in the three films....

    No-Pants Girls: Movie Box-ing2
  • 2007
    Woman Transformation

    Woman Transformation (2007)

    Woman Transformation

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    Kamei mixes humour, drama and, in this occasion, bits of horror to visualize the physical transformation in yôkai that the three main actresses undergo. Mihiro Iwasaki (Anri Ban) is a model extremely preoccupied by how others look at and think of her...

    Woman Transformation
  • 2001
    Stereo Future

    Stereo Future (2001)

    Stereo Future

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    Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but who continually fawns over the film’s obnoxious ham of a star....

    Stereo Future
  • 2007
    Konna otona no onnanoko

    Konna otona no onnanoko (2007)

    Konna otona no onnanoko

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    Based on the comic book by Marie Abiko....

    Konna otona no onnanoko
  • 2003
    SHORT FILMS

    SHORT FILMS (2003)

    SHORT FILMS

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    Omnibus of six short films: Return; Ken-do star; Hana to oji-san; Adagietto Sehr, langsam; Nakayoki koto wa yoki koto ka na; Slow is Beautiful. Third installment of "SF" series produced by Hiroyuki Nakano....

    SHORT FILMS
  • 2011
    Ugly

    Ugly (2011)

    Ugly

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    Kazuya is an aimless photographer in Paris who attempts suicide while visiting the city. He goes to see his half-brother Satoshi who lives there, but finds his two roommates instead and they seem to be hiding something....

    Ugly
  • 2008
    A Story of Anna

    A Story of Anna (2008)

    A Story of Anna

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    A young woman escapes from a city in the near future, where people's anger is medically controlled, and drifts away to a lonely island. It is the developer of the emotion-controlling medicine who finds her and marries her. Her memory is erased and sh...

    A Story of Anna
  • 2007
    Baumkuchen

    Baumkuchen (2007)

    Baumkuchen

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    Four different worlds are connected through the "Baumkuchen Seeds of Happiness." The World of the Kawanobe's - Three brothers, Taro (Mame Yamada), Jiro (Hiroshi Yamamoto), and Hiroto (Shoichi Honda) who is a so-called NEET (short for "Not in Employme...

    Baumkuchen
  • 2011
    Dusk Dahlia

    Dusk Dahlia (2011)

    Dusk Dahlia

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    Dusk Dahlia