
Acting
Ariei Umefune
Born 1988-01-01 · Tokyo, Japan
Ariei Umefune (梅舟 惟永, Umefune Ariei, January 1, 1988) is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She graduated from Waseda University Faculty of Law. She is 165 cm tall and boold type B. Ariei is a founding and current member of the theater company Rorie. Her current agency is Ku, formerly was represented by Zacco.
Acting credits
6.8Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.
Asako I & II
2018
6.3A self-proclaimed psychopath, coldblooded lawyer Ninomiya becomes obsessed with stopping an ax-wielding serial killer who's made him their next target.
Lumberjack the Monster
2023
7.2In summer, Nagisa and Natsuo meet by the sea. Their vacant gazes reflect each other as they exchange awkward words and wade into the rain-drenched ocean. In winter, Li, a screenwriter, travels to a snow-covered village. There, she finds a guesthouse run by Benzo.
Two Seasons, Two Strangers
2025
6.6Frustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Fixating on a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota, she travels to America to find it.
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
2014
7.3Kanna Seto lost her childhood friend Haruta in a car accident when she was a freshman in high school. Carrying the emotional pain from that incident throughout her life, Kanna is still wounded as an adult. Kanna then meets Roku Akazawa, who also carries a painful experience from his past. When Roku was an elementary school student, a girl who was with him got into an accident and died. Because of that incident, Roku carries a heavy sense of guilt. When they meet, time, frozen since that day, begins to tick again.
Beyond the Memories
2013
7.0Starring Rei Dan, this is the third film directed by Yutaka Mizutani. Riko Hanamura (Rei Dan) is the leader of a local amateur symphony orchestra, which has been active with members who love music very much. However, Riko is not doing well, and she finally decides to disband the orchestra after 18 years of operation. She plans to hold the last farewell concert...
Sun and Bolero
2022
8.0Depicts the life of best-selling Japanese poet Toyo Shibata. Toyo Shibata first began writing poems at the age of 92 and published her first collection of poems "Kujikenaide" (″Don't lose heart″) in 2009, which sold over 1.5 million copies.
Don't Lose Heart
2013
5.5Saya who came to Tokyo after being traumatized by an incident eight years ago. She learns that the man involved in the case has been engaged to her sister and returns home without being able to stand. Saya's radical words and deeds involve the people around him and reveal their hidden humanity.
Ruined
2021
NRRiko, who will begin university in Tokyo in spring, journeys there from Hiroshima in February with her father to find a place for her to live. On their travels, they meet various colorful characters. The father remembers his late wife, and raising his daughter alone. Their fun time together is tinged with the knowledge that it is about to end. Rakugo performer Kyotaro Yanagiya appears in his first leading film role, and rising star Anna Ishii plays the sensitive Riko. The eccentric supporting cast includes Romi Park, Akihiro Kakuta, Keiko Yanagawa, Kei Ishibashi, LaSalle Ishii, and Momiji Yamamura.
Spring Has Come
2015
NRNatsumi (Kie Kitano), an art college student, has been living a listless life without going to university for a few days after her boyfriend Kakeru (Jingi Irie) suddenly goes abroad to study. Then one day, alone in her apartment, she picks up a sketchbook, it was something she received from her grandmother's belongings when she was little. She starts drawing without thinking, and to her surprise, it's a magical sketchbook where what she draws comes to life...
Still life
2010
NRNo synopsis available yet.
めがみさま
2017
NRFour-year-old Yang Yang lives with his single mother in Osaka. He has not seen his father, whom his Taiwanese mother met while studying in Japan, for months. A picture falls into his hands that shows the three smiling happily in front of a fireworks display. The painted picture brings back memories of the happy days as a family. The film sensitively accompanies the emotional world of the individual family members and accompanies worries and moments of happiness with which one can identify across national borders.
The Flower of Midsummer Night
2019