Directing

Osamu Minorikawa

Born

1972-04-02 (54)

Known for

Directing

Credits

9 titles

Known for

No Matter How Much My Mom Hates Me poster
4.8

Taiji has been estranged from his mother Mitsuko for years. Due to a meeting with his friend, he looks back at his past with his mother. After not seeing her for years, Taiji sees Mitsuko again. He tries to regain his mother's love.

No Matter How Much My Mom Hates Me

2018

Crying Clown's Wedding poster
8.0

Kanami is an apprentice pierrot and dreams of making people laugh. She falls in love with Yosuke who is a dialysis patient. He forgets to smile. To make Yosuke smile, Kanami decides to have a smile no matter what. Yosuke begins to have feelings to her and they decide to marry. On the day before their wedding Yosuke collapses.

Crying Clown's Wedding

2016

SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda poster
NR

Documentary on the life of actor Yusaku Matsuda. This is a documentary film produced on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the birth of actor Yusaku Matsuda and the 20th anniversary of his death . It is composed of newly shot interviews as well as real voice interviews and treasured videos that were not officially revealed until now.

SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda

2009

Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship poster
7.1

Su-chan, Mai-chan, Sawako-san follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers. 34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings for the manager there. 34-year-old Mai-chan works at an OA machine maker. She is in a relationship with a married man. 39-year-old Sawako works as a web designer and also takes care of her grandmother. -san and her mother take care of her grandmother.

Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship

2013

Elephant Song poster
7.0

Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wanted to be buried in the land rather than a cemetery, so that his body would be 'useful' - and now he's dead. Kanako and her boy enlist the help of a friendly florist with a small truck, steal the corpse, and head for the mountains.

Elephant Song

1994

Life Can Be So Wonderful poster
7.0

Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan.

Life Can Be So Wonderful

2007

Behind the camera

No Matter How Much My Mom Hates Me poster
4.8

Taiji has been estranged from his mother Mitsuko for years. Due to a meeting with his friend, he looks back at his past with his mother. After not seeing her for years, Taiji sees Mitsuko again. He tries to regain his mother's love.

No Matter How Much My Mom Hates Me

2018

Crying Clown's Wedding poster
8.0

Kanami is an apprentice pierrot and dreams of making people laugh. She falls in love with Yosuke who is a dialysis patient. He forgets to smile. To make Yosuke smile, Kanami decides to have a smile no matter what. Yosuke begins to have feelings to her and they decide to marry. On the day before their wedding Yosuke collapses.

Crying Clown's Wedding

2016

SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda poster
NR

Documentary on the life of actor Yusaku Matsuda. This is a documentary film produced on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the birth of actor Yusaku Matsuda and the 20th anniversary of his death . It is composed of newly shot interviews as well as real voice interviews and treasured videos that were not officially revealed until now.

SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda

2009

Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship poster
7.1

Su-chan, Mai-chan, Sawako-san follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers. 34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings for the manager there. 34-year-old Mai-chan works at an OA machine maker. She is in a relationship with a married man. 39-year-old Sawako works as a web designer and also takes care of her grandmother. -san and her mother take care of her grandmother.

Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship

2013

Elephant Song poster
7.0

Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wanted to be buried in the land rather than a cemetery, so that his body would be 'useful' - and now he's dead. Kanako and her boy enlist the help of a friendly florist with a small truck, steal the corpse, and head for the mountains.

Elephant Song

1994

Life Can Be So Wonderful poster
7.0

Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan.

Life Can Be So Wonderful

2007

Life Can Be So Wonderful poster
7.0

Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan.

Life Can Be So Wonderful

2007

It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori poster
7.0

A group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.

It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori

2012

Love Stories From Fukuoka 11: Kimi to miru keshiki poster
NR

Akina (Umika Kawashima) and Takumi (Kodai Asaka) have been dating since high school. Akina started working as a bus tour guide in Saga Prefecture after graduating from high school. On the other hand, her boyfriend Takumi stayed in town, got a job in a factory. Being 1 hour train ride away from her boyfriend, romance oriented Akina struggled not to miss her boyfriend Takumi so much. But one day, on their date, one Akina’s action made Takumi’s mind to end their relationship. Was Akina the only one who was madly in love?! Three years later, Akina was living changing job to jobs, not having a particular goal in her life. She still had a feeling for Takumi, and one day her friends announced her the shocking news about him. Takumi was dealing with a disability. Leaving everything behind, Akina goes to see him. Can she get close to Takumi’s deeply hurt, closed heart? The second chapter of their romance begins!

Love Stories From Fukuoka 11: Kimi to miru keshiki

2016