
Ataru Oikawa
Directing
Biography
Ataru Oikawa is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. While working as an editor at Magazine House, he wrote screenplays, and made his debut as a screenwriter with his original scenario DOOR. Later, he quit Magazine House and became a film director.
Known For

Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's chained front door. He leaves, but the next day, her nightmare starts.
Door

Monster attacks are a common occurrence in Japan. A special division of the Japan Meteorological Agency has been established to predict such attacks, as well as support the Japan Self-Defense Forces and minimize the damage from the attacks.
Monster Magnitude: 9

Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However when he starts to become suspicious that his friends may be deeply involved in successive murders that occur every summer, the situation around Keiichi gradually starts to turn into something more sinister.
Shrill Cries of Summer

Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?
Tomie

While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her older sister, Mariko, decides to investigate the mysterious death of her sister.
Apartment 1303

In Kamakura, 12th grade Rikako falls in love with Tomoaki Fujii, rumoured to be the school Don Juan and having impregnated a girl. This doesn't bother Rikako one bit, as she too sleeps around.
Lovers' Kiss
Three stories with horror and science fiction elements. 1st episode: "The Curse of Tutankhamen" (Tsutankâmen no noroï) by Kazuyuki Izutsu. With Naoto Takenaka. Two clans of Yakuza clash in a bar. 2nd episode: "They came back, tonight too" (Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. With Renji Ishibashi. A polar writer is pursued by two mysterious mountebanks. 3rd episode: "I want to come back to this day" (Ano hi ni kaeritai) by Banmei Takahashi. With Toshiyuki Nagashima. A couple who robbed a bank decides to separate to escape the police.
Dangerous Stories

A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an Indian goddess. Sayoko is a kind of femme fatale, who uses her supernatural power to control people, especially men.
Kissho Tennyo

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Menotto

A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
Tomie: Revenge

Filmed entirely in the Shibuya area, the city and youth culture of Shibuya in the 1990s are fully visualized.Theatrical release was also particular about Shibuya, and a special dome was set up at the entrance of Spain Saka and it was independently screened. As for skateboarding , which is the core of the story , professional skateboarders who were active at the time appeared in large numbers and showed off various techniques in the play.
Octopus Army I Want to Meet You in Shibuya

Maebara Keiichi, a young teenager, has recently moved from the city to the rural village of Hinamizawa with his family. He is adjusting quite well to his new life, making friends at the small school, playing games, passing time in relative happiness, when suddenly a gruesome murder occurs. A mystery begins to unravel — tracing back to happenings five years ago. As Keiichi learns more about these strange events, he wonders if he will be able to face the truth behind all of this.
Shrill Cries: Reshuffle

A love story in the style of a psycho-thriller, depicting the relationship between a female police officer who continues to have an affair and the men who surround her, along with the progress of a bizarre incident. Due to various circumstances, the theatrical release was postponed and the work announced as OV was released to the public at a special screening at the Kamemei Painting Theater in Tokyo.
Romantic Mania
Two mismatched policewomen are assigned to guard and observe a released prisoner who has connections with a women-only gang who are suspected of counterfeiting.
The New Metropolitan Police Branch 82

Within days after the mysterious new student Kawakami Tomie joins a high school classroom, all hell literally breaks loose. Simple in-fighting between boys and girls over Tomie's oppressive shadow soon gives way to mind-breaking violence, culminating in a grizzly dissection that ultimately leads to suicide, insanity, and even more violence.
Tomie: Beginning

It is a youth group of third-class university students struggling to get a job at a first-class company.
Gappie, Wear a Tie this Summer

In the near future Japan's economy is in shambles and bet bowling is huge. Team Kingpin hopes the government will ban bet bowling so they can open a casino. The team full of beautiful girls, team allways, engages in a fierce battle to stop them.
Cutie Girl

Set in a house in the suburbs, the film uses black humor to depict the horrors caused by a strange drainage pipe that drags people in.
The Groaning Drain
Hagakure Makoto, young and cute, is trying to find a regular job to help support her family. She has no training in the real world, and she will meet with several corporate evils. But she was trained as a samurai by her grandfather, which will be useful to battle the evils of the world, including a bad samurai girl who is protected by an impenetrable net armor - with a week spot, like Achilles' heel. Eventually, it will come the time Makoto must leave this world - passing her skills into another young and cute girl.
Samurai Girl 21

Youth Sports film directed by Ataru Oikawa