Yu Uemura

Acting

Yu Uemura

Born 2002-11-02

Yu Uemura is an actor known for playing Kira in Eisuke Naitō's film, Forgiven Children (2020).

Acting credits

Seek poster
NR

Kyohei Aizawa, an assassin for a covert non-governmental espionage group in Japan called "四十九" or "SEEK", is grieving over the loss of his girlfriend from a tragic plane accident. The leader of “SEEK”,Ryo Mikumo, contacts him for an emergency mission; save a fellow agent, recover a new highly explosive liquid called “RDX@“, stop a ruthless Yakuza leader, Sojiro Kotsuki, and his gang before they take over Japan. Although the Ninjas were thought to have disappeared...the new breed of assassins live on helping to protect Japan and all that is right; the Ninjas are coming soon.

Seek

2025

Single8 poster
7.3

Summer 1978. High schooler Kurita is inspired by Star Wars, and films a spaceship scene on a 8mm camera together with his friend Ozawa. When the class is discussing a project for their school festival, Kurita's suggestion to make an SF movie ends up winning. Together with their movie fan classmate Sasaki, the boys start to plan a movie and manage to convince Yamashita, the prettiest girl in class, to star as the heroine. Over the summer vacation, the four shoot their movie, "Time Reverse", where an alien spaceship arrives on Earth to turn back time in order to save mankind from itself.

Single8

2023

HIGUMA!! The Killer Bear poster
4.5

Deep in the forest, as Sora is pressured to finish a high-paying kidnapping gig, a monstrous bear suddenly appears. A chaos-driven fight for survival erupts.

HIGUMA!! The Killer Bear

2025

Ginji The Speculator poster
7.0

A British comedy in Japanese clothes, with central character Ginji at once earnest farm boy and entrepreneurial savant, finding ingenious and entertaining solutions in a timeless tale of business and found family.

Ginji The Speculator

2022

Rain or Shine poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rain or Shine

2025

Intimate Stranger poster
7.0

A psychological thriller set in the post-COVID Tokyo. The film follows a woman looking for her missing son, and a shady young man who approaches her, claiming to know her son.

Intimate Stranger

2022

Forgiven Children poster
6.5

While fooling around with a self-made crossbow, Kira accidentally kills his classmate Itsuki. For lack of evidence, the young student is found innocent. However, his trial is widely covered by the mass media, and the following uproar from society won’t leave his family untouched.

Forgiven Children

2020

Break in the Clouds poster
NR

Maika, a pregnant woman, is running along a farm road at night with nothing but her clothes on her back. Her beaten face is discolored, one eye is swollen, and she is bleeding from the edge of her mouth. The headlights of a car approaching from behind frightens Maika, and she loses her balance and falls. Just as she is about to get up, her cell phone rings. It's a call from Masayoshi, her abusive husband. Out of fear, Maika knocks the phone to the ground and breaks it. Slowly, she picks herself up and continues walking down the street at night. She arrives at a love hotel hidden in the suburbs of a provincial city.

Break in the Clouds

2022

Sayonara, Band Apart poster
7.0

Kawashima, who harbored a modest dream of pursuing a career in music in Osaka, met a woman named Yuri, and with her encouragement, he took to the stage. This encounter would drastically change the course of Kawashima’s life.

Sayonara, Band Apart

2022

From Dawn to Midday on the Sea poster
7.0

A man who gave up on living in despair with society and himself. Mai, a high school girl, is involved in a confinement incident caused by the man. Mai's classmate, Ujiie, who caused a violent incident and lost her whereabouts. Set in a small port town a little far from the city center, a confinement incident triggers the gears of the three characters, depicting the moment when people with difficulties in life take a step forward.

From Dawn to Midday on the Sea

2023

She is me, I am her poster
NR

A socially-distanced college reunion, an unusual rapport struck between a food delivery man and a patron, a bus-stop encounter, and a blind woman scammed into thinking her brother is sick constitute the stories of Mayu Nakamura’s COVID-era quadriptych—a work that encapsulates the newfound anxieties of loneliness, insecurity and the struggle for connection within the depths of the pandemic lockdown. Tied together by the remarkable performances of actress Nahana, who embodies the various female characters across the film’s differing narratives, Nakamura’s episodic feature delves into the lives of women in COVID-era Japan, finding profundity and human connection amid the unlikely encounters of strangers.

She is me, I am her

2022