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Naoko Ogigami

Naoko Ogigami

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Biography

Naoko Ogigami (荻上 直子, Ogigami Naoko, born 1972 in Chiba Prefecturea) is a Japanese film director. Among her most notable works are her films Kamome Shokudo and Megane. At the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival Megane won the Manfred Salzberger Award, for "broadening the boundaries of cinema today."

Known For

Modern Love Tokyo
6.8

This seven-episode anthology features a cast of leading actors and depicts various forms of "love," such as love almost forgotten, love between sons and mothers, and love that transcends borders.

Modern Love Tokyo

2022
How About Coffee?
7.8

Hajime Aoyama runs the mobile coffee shop Tako Coffee. Riding in his coffee truck, he goes from street to street. Along the way, he comforts those with wounded hearts and minds. Hajime Aoyama appears carefree, but he has a secret.

How About Coffee?

2021
Rilakkuma and Kaoru
7.4

Kaoru's unexpected new roommate is Rilakkuma, a bear with a zipper on its back that spends each day just lazing around -- but is impossible to hate.

Rilakkuma and Kaoru

2019
Riverside Mukolitta
6.6

A lonely young man moves in a 50-year-old apartment building. When he meets the cheerful residents, he finds himself surrounded by small happiness.

Riverside Mukolitta

2021
Kamome Diner
7.3

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her.

Kamome Diner

2006
Rent-a-Cat
7.2

A young woman who rents out cats to lonely old folks finds her life turned upside down when a young man from her past shows back up in her life.

Rent-a-Cat

2012
Glasses
7.2

An overworked career woman leaves her life in the city for an island vacation only to encounter eccentric local inhabitants.

Glasses

2007
Maru
6.0

Sawada graduated from an art university but cannot rely on it to make a living and is working as an assistant to a famous contemporary artist. He lost his independent will and became accustomed to simply doing what he was told. One day, Sawada had an accident on the way to work and lost his job because of an arm injury. When he returned to the room, there was an ant on the floor. After drawing a circle as if guided by an ant, Sawada's daily life begins to be eroded by the circle.

Maru

2024
Close-Knit
7.1

After being neglected by her mother, a little girl is taken in by her uncle and his transgender girlfriend, who create a loving home for her.

Close-Knit

2017
Ripples
6.4

Yoriko Sudo believes in a new religious group Midoriinochikai, that worships water. She lives peacefully, devoting herself to the group daily.

Ripples

2023
Toilet
5.6

A 30-something Gundam fan and engineer is forced to live with his recluse brother Maury and younger sister Lisa to take care of their Japanese grandmother after their mother's funeral.

Toilet

2010
Yoshino's Barber Shop
7.9

In a small town on the countryside, every young boy is forced to have the same bowl-head haircut known as the "Yoshino-gari" hairstyle. Then one day, a drastic change occurs when a transfer student with bleached hair comes from Tokyo.

Yoshino's Barber Shop

2004
Love Is Five Seven Five
7.5

A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.

Love Is Five Seven Five

2005
Hoshino-kun, Yumeno-kun
N/A

A short film by Naoko Ogigami.

Hoshino-kun, Yumeno-kun

2001
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8.0

A short film by Naoko Ogigami.

Ayako

1999