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Ataru Oikawa
Writer 68 years old

Ataru Oikawa

Tokyo, Japan

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.

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5 titles
Higurashi no naku koro ni: Chikai

Higurashi no naku koro ni: Chikai

Ataru Oikawa 2009 1h 48m

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.

Higurashi no naku koro ni

Higurashi no naku koro ni

Ataru Oikawa 2008 1h 46m 6.0

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.

Apartment 1303

Apartment 1303

Ataru Oikawa 2007 1h 34m 3.7

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.

The New Metropolitan Police Branch 82

Yonosuke Koike 1998 1h 15m

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.

Door

Door

Banmei Takahashi 1988 1h 34m 6.0

After several strangely threatening calls from a local salesman, a homemaker becomes increasingly afraid to answer her apartment door.

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