Directing

Masako Matsuura

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Platonic Sex poster
5.5

When Aoi is gang-raped by her classmates and kicked out of her home by her own parents she sees no reason to continue living. Before she commits suicide, however, she receives an email on her cellphone from a man named Toshi addressed to a girl named Ai. The message simply thanks the girl for being alive, but this specific message has an effect on Aoi and she decides to keep on living. Without many options, Aoi resorts to everything from paid dating to porn to earn money and meets a lot of less than reputable characters. Throughout it all though she looks toward Toshi as her hope for happiness and the two form a relationship.

Platonic Sex

2001

Secret Liaisons poster
7.0

Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.

Secret Liaisons

1995

Secret Liaisons poster
7.0

Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.

Secret Liaisons

1995

Deborah, the Rival poster
9.0

A college girl, Asayo, falls for the star of her school’s football team, Igarashi. Her main rival in winning him is Deborah, a flamboyant drag-performing football player (okama) who shares her dorm. Despite their rivalry, Asayo and Deborah become friends, and he helps her pursue Igarashi. Complications arise when Asayo realizes Deborah secretly loves Igarashi. His feelings are eventually revealed, but Igarashi does not reciprocate. In the end, Asayo, Igarashi, and Deborah navigate romance, rivalry, and dorm life together, with friendships and loyalties intact.

Deborah, the Rival

1997

Cardboard House Girl poster
NR

Sakurai Ann, an office worker, has been steadily saving money to move to the U.S. and live freely. When she finally reaches her goal of 5 million yen, her apartment is broken into and all of her money is stolen. She quits her job, cancels her apartment lease, and then discovers that her boyfriend has been with another woman. With no family to rely to, she finds herself living on the brink of homelessness.

Cardboard House Girl

2001

Cardboard House Girl poster
NR

Sakurai Ann, an office worker, has been steadily saving money to move to the U.S. and live freely. When she finally reaches her goal of 5 million yen, her apartment is broken into and all of her money is stolen. She quits her job, cancels her apartment lease, and then discovers that her boyfriend has been with another woman. With no family to rely to, she finds herself living on the brink of homelessness.

Cardboard House Girl

2001

Mayu: Kokoro no hoshi poster
NR

Adaptation of Mayu Ohara's autobiography.

Mayu: Kokoro no hoshi

2007

Mayu: Kokoro no hoshi poster
NR

Adaptation of Mayu Ohara's autobiography.

Mayu: Kokoro no hoshi

2007