Shota Sometani Movies

This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shota Sometani

30 something year old Yuriko (Noriko Eguchi) works as a aromatherapist at an aroma salon. She uses essentials oils and her hands to soothe her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noriko Eguchi

Miyata lost his wife early on and single-handedly raised their two children. One day he notices a change in his physical condition, and decides that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Mitsuishi

After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shota Sometani

Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer, who slowly takes control of the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hideaki Ito

Koichi and Atsumi are lovers who have known each other all their lives. A year ago, however, a suicide attempt by Atsumi left her in a coma. Through...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Takeru Satoh

Koji, a university student and budding photographer, is asked by a man to secretly take pictures of his wife Yurika. As a result, his relationships...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruma Miura

"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy's prison in Matsumoto City, Nagano...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri

After Japan's defeat in WWII, "Pandora no hako" follows a young man named Risuke (Shota Sometani) who has contracted tuberculosis. He travels to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shota Sometani

In a small rural town, a brother and sister goes missing and there's also a serial killer case involving woman as the victims. Mayu Misono (Aya...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aya Omasa

After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shota Sometani

In a noisy classroom, biology teacher Madoka proceeds with his lesson in a small voice.He is unable to look the students square in the face nor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miwako Wagatsuma

In a Japanese military hospital, a mysterious pandemic strikes and quickly kills seemingly at random. A group of unconnected individuals must come to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shota Sometani

Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaki Okada

Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yûko Takeuchi

Saki and Toshi were born and raised at the shabby "Drive in Gamo," located on the side of a road. Their father was a yakuza but he was kicked out of...

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Cast: Mei Kurokawa

In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. The simmering tension between them is...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ryohei Suzuki

Beautiful Noriko Miki works at a cosmetic company. One day, Noriko is murdered. People begin to suspect her co-worker Miki Shirono might have killed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mao Inoue

In present-day Japan, little Masashi moves from an evacuation center to a small village. There he will discover that every child has the ability to...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Himeka Asami

Momoko (Yui Aragaki) is a quiet and lonely high school girl who's only passion is to cheer traditional cheer squad, but all she could gather were...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yui Aragaki

After a symphonic music career in Europe cut short by hearing loss, Ao (Oizumi Yo) returns home to run his family's farm in Hokkaido alongside...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yo Oizumi

After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However,...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Haru Kuroki

The movie is part of the Kindaichi TV movie series. Kindaichi is played by actor Goro Inagaki. The character's grandfather began with the written...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Goro Inagaki

Moritaka Mashiro doesn't want to follow in the path of his uncle who worked as a manga artist, but ultimately died because of exhaustion. Moritaka...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeru Satoh

When Fujio, Yoshio and Akiko were children, they saw a fantastic "Ryoumou Deer," but nobody believed them. The three siblings lived in a mountain...

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Cast: Yuri Nakamura

Takuji Kameoka is a 37-year-old bachelor whose occupation is a “miscellaneous actor”. His only interest is drinking. One day he falls in...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ken Yasuda

Samao Daikoku’s family register was taken which keeps him from escaping the underground life that he has led. To get away once and for all,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shota Sometani

Akane is a high school teacher who hears a rumor from her students that there is actual footage on the Internet of someone's suicide. The footage is...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Satomi Ishihara

A seemingly random series of bombings in a provincial city. The latest target is a public bus route. Detective Chaya chased terrorists and arrested a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toma Ikuta

Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm....

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Shota Sometani

A chronicle of the life of Yasui Santetsu, a 17th century master of go who turned his attention to astronomy and created a new calendar for Japan....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ko Shibasaki

After receiving a cosmic blast while masturbating, a virginal teenager gains psychic powers and joins a group of ESP virgins in order to defend the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shota Sometani

After the death of his father, Chihiro goes to live with his older half-brother Togo and his girlfriend Satomi. Togo and Satomi greet him with open...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shota Sometani

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they...

Genre: War

Cast: Junichi Okada

After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fumiyo Kohinata

Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm....

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Shota Sometani

In the early 1990s, experiments were carried out secretly in Japan. Two different methods were used in the experiments. One method involved forcing...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Masaki Okada

High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Sota Fukushi

Sennen no yuraku is set in a small community called “Roji” where Kenji Nakagami—one of the most famous novelists in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinobu Terajima

The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

Following the death of his wife professor Kyoichi leads a solitary life by the sea. A stray cat called Mii, who was being fed by his wife, not only...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Issey Ogata

Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Directed by Arata Oshima, son of rebel filmmaker Nagisa Oshima, who had praised Sono's early work before his passing, this documentary gives insight...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sion Sono

High school student Yoshio Kamogawa suddenly gained the power to read other people's minds. One day, he receives mail from Sae Asami in Tokyo asking...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Shota Sometani

Jun is a university student. She meets high school student Haru. Haru is looking for Sachiko, the ex-girlfriend of her now deceased father. Jun and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ai Hashimoto

In a time when the main source of energy was still coal, there was a man who saw the future in oil. Young Tetsuzo Kunioka who hails from Moji,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junichi Okada

During the Late Tang Dynasty, a manor is invaded by a demon cat and a sense of unrest befalls the capital of Changan. A poet is charged with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Huang Xuan

Satoshi Murayama, the shogi (Japanese chess) master known as the arch-rival of Yoshiharu Habu, the shogi genius of the century, died of an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wounds. As he prepares to secure another win in an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

A mysterious old woman appears before Setsu, who has recently lost her only child in a tragic accident. She says she can bring Setsu's son, Daio back...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mirai Yamamoto

Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Go Ayano

Three friends who will soon graduate from high school decide to take one last trip together.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Taiga Nakano

A young Japanese woman named Yoko finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Atsuko Maeda

With a contagious sense of abandon, three young adults' lives become intimately entangled over the course of a long summer in Hakodate, Hokkaido.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tasuku Emoto

When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeru Satoh

"A world" - After graduating from a university, close friends Takashi Tsurug and Tomohiko Miwa begin work at a company which does brain research. One...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yuta Tamamori

A man and a woman share the same time and same space. One day in the morning, they go their separate ways. The woman meets her old friend, but she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shota Sometani

Web adaptation of All Esper Dayo! manga featuring an original story.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Riria Kojima

Set over one night in Tokyo, we follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a call-girl and an addict...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masataka Kubota

Akito has been the ears and voice of his mother, Reiko, since he was a child. Reiko was born deaf and has long dreamed that her son would become a...

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Cast: Yasuko Matsuyuki

Dead bodies with eyeballs ruptured are continuously found. Their direct causes of death are heart attacks and they acted like they were possessed...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Marie Iitoyo

Rintaro (Sometani Shota) returns home for the first time in a while to prepare for and attend his father's funeral. He and his sister are surprised...

Genre: Family

Cast: Shota Sometani

Sensitive and refined drama in which experiences from the puberty of a female teacher and a piano student reflected in the world of the younger...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akie Namiki

Following the excitement of first Bangkok and then New York, a big murder case takes place in Tokyo. Chinatown master detectives Tangren and Qinfeng...

Genre: Action

Cast: Wang Baoqiang

What if Jesus and Buddha were living on Earth in modern times? What if they shared an apartment in Japan? Saint☆Oniisan is a humorous drama...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kaho

SAINT☆YOUNG MEN 2nd Century imagines a world where Jesus Christ (Kenichi Matsuyama; Death Note) and Gautama Buddha (Shōta Sometani;...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

A group of saints living together in a room in Tokyo's tachikawa apartment, the awakened man Buddha and the son of god Jesus, form an effort to make...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

Midori is in her late 30's and is a cutout picture artist. She has anxiety about her future. Takano is a 25-year-old bureaucrat at the Ministry of...

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Cast: Asami Mizukawa

When Satoru (Shota Sometani) was 5-years-old, he became an orphan due to a bus accident. A ventriloquist doll was at the scene of the accident....

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Cast: Shota Sometani

Yukio Kasai (Sometani Shota) is running through the mountains to escape something, when suddenly he is accidentally hit and knocked unconscious. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shota Sometani

A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

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Cast: Shota Sometani

Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Kaho Nakamura

Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people after winning the National Middle School Shogi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

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Cast: Yurika Nakamura

A scientific exploration in search of a new energy source unleashes a group of powerful demons who begin possessing human bodies and destroying...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hisato Izaki

Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Masami Nagasawa

Documentary detailing the making and shooting of the 25th Anniversary book. There are talk sessions with four actors who have spent a lot of time...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryosuke Yamada

Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity unleashes a calamity that...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Nanoka Hara

Twenty-five-year-old Momo has friends. Her parents live some distance away, but they sometimes get together to dine out. She dates an acceptable guy,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sairi Ito

Atsuo Kashiwagi, an enthusiastic member of the village council, decides to invent a mysterious beast to make his village famous. Against all...

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Cast: Koshiro Asami

Men and one woman have drifted to an uninhabited island. The only woman will try to survive by taking advantage of her own sexual attractiveness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tae Kimura

MARU runs around Tokyo.MARU hears from his fellow messenger HIDE that he might be leaving Tokyo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayumu Nakajima

WOWOW Actors Short Films Season 3

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Cast: Ayumu Nakajima

The drama depicts the exploits of the “Ichigeki Hishikkitai”, a special combat unit formed by farmers to deal with the "Imperial Robbers"...

Genre: History

Cast: Shota Sometani

Mortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is also...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Terry Ito

As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yosuke Kubozuka

After Akira Ninomiya miraculously survives a brutal attack by an unknown assailant wearing a "monster mask," he becomes fixated on finding the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuya Kamenashi

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Cast: Tomoki Kanazawa

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bernardo Bertolucci

Watako has just lost her lover, Kimura, in a traffic accident in Tokyo. She decides to bury the trauma of this tragedy and carries on with her life...

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Cast: Mugi Kadowaki

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Cast: Moe Miura

An original story telling how Abe no Seimei became the most powerful sorcerer in the age before he became an Onmyoji.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kento Yamazaki

Makio Kōdai is a shy 35-year-old woman. She works as a novelist. One day, her sibling and her sibling's married partner die in a car accident....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yui Aragaki

A magazine editor loses his wife to cancer and he keeps her ashes in a jar. When he begins dating her sister, he becomes overwhelmed with guilt.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kanako Kojima