Daichi Watanabe Movies

Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that makes use of nuclear fission energy. While doing...

Based on the semibiographical novel by Jun Miura, Oh My Buddha is the classic summer coming-of-age story that is burned to a crisp with teenage...

Michitaro Sano’s wife passed away 18 years ago. Since her death, he has lived with his daughter Yumiko at their home. Now, Michitaro retires...

Three stories, depicted in three different styles, unfold in three locations: "Kyoto", a lyrical improvised drama based on documentar y footage...

Ken directs his graduation film "Koko ni Iru Dake" with his colleagues. The movie will be his last film as a student. While shooting the movie, Ken...

Hajime asks his friend Yoshi to set him up with his classmate Ann. Yoshi tries to do this for Hajime, but this just upsets Ann. Yoshi's relationship...

Saike, Kazuki, and Takeo were abused by their respective parents and did not go to school. They stayed together at a youth detention center. To...

A short film by Daichi Watanabe.

Yukiko, a 29-year-old elementary school teacher in Tokyo, struggles with student communication and personal insecurities. Overlooked in the...

In Sapporo, college student Watanabe Sachi approaches her band leader boyfriend Takumi with the news that she is pregnant. Finding it difficult to...

Hikari (Dai Watanabe) receives news that his father passed away. Hikari decides to take over his father's ramen shop. To do so, Hikari quits his job...

The year is 2020, the middle of the corona crisis. Art student Itsuka has her graduation exhibition canceled and must take home the piece which she...

Cocoa is the first work written by 14-year-old Sumire Suzuki, the youngest ever winner of the "Fuji TV Young Scenario Grand Prize." It is a story of...

Having played the role of a model prisoner, Kyoko is finally released on parole. She is greeted by Tomohiro, a man requested by Kyoko's boyfriend....

Sakurai, who recently started working at a real estate agency, is diligent and serious about his job, but he's not very efficient and struggles to...

Moving into an old house in the rural countryside, videographer Komai converses with its former owner Umemoto, drawing from personal memories to...