Ataru Oikawa

Director

September 5, 1957 (68 years)

Tokyo, Japan

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.

Filmography

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Monster Magnitude: 9

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.

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Tomie

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?

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Tomie: Beginning

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.

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Apartment 1303

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.

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Shrill Cries of Summer

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.

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Lovers' Kiss

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.

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Kissho Tennyo

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.

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Menotto

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Shrill Cries: Reshuffle

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.

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9 + 1

Ten actresses live in a folk hotel to prepare musical performances. One of the famous actresses suddenly disappeared without a cause, although less one, but the musical or as usual, but until the end of the show, the missing was still not found, it became a case. A year later, the remaining nine women each received a mysterious letter.

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Shojyo Senso

A survival action thriller written and directed by Oikawa Ataru, who has been a leading figure on the Japanese low-budget horror scene since his breakthrough work Tomie. Its blood-drenched visuals tell a story of high school girls engaging in a battle to the death as part of a game organized by an underground website. School outcasts Rioka (Ishibashi Anna) and transfer student Yoshimura (Kirishima Rina) enter the world of a game run by an shady website on the invitation of their absent classmate Miki (Minami Yuki). Its objective is simple: a group of high school girls murder each other until one of them achieves seven kills.

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The Groaning Drain

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.

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Tomie: Revenge

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.

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Fight Girls

Youth Sports film directed by Ataru Oikawa

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Cutie Girl

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.

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Octopus Army I Want to Meet You in Shibuya

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.

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Neo Document Series ZONE

It explores the mysteries of supernatural spots and urban legends across Japan. "Discover the Legendary Vampire Beastman Chupacabra of H Island!" What is the truth behind the vampire beastman born from human-animal fusion experiments? "I Am an Alien! Exclusive Interview with the Shocking Beauty Selma" What is the story of the beautiful woman who claims to be an alien?

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Tokyo Psycho

Sachiko Kokubu, the beautiful owner of a Tokyo design agency, finds her life disrupted when she receives paper scraps stitched together with piano wire with the message "I know you were meant to marry me." As further messages come she embarks on a nightmare investigation to uncover the identity of her tormentor.

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Tamagawa Girl War

An action film depicting the friendship and betrayal of a group of bad girls. A yakuza movie with popular idols.

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The Boy Made in Japan

Yamato Tanaka, who attempted to murder his father in the past, used to work as a janitor in a theme park. Now unemployed, Yamato lives in a very humble apartment room. He lost his family by the crime he committed with the urge he himself couldn’t and even now can explain. He has nowhere to go, and becomes isolated in the big city. His continuous job search is unsuccessful, and one day he meets a young girl Kaoru who is passing out advertisement packaged with free tissue to the crowd at a train station. He aggressively gets involved with her. The two immediately feel the mutual isolation and desperation within themselves. These are youngsters with no purpose in their lives, symbolizing the Japanese society which passed the post-war economic peak period. Yamato and Kaoru go down the road of destruction, being sucked into the deep, dark ditch of society. Filling the screen images both stark and surreal, director Ataru Oikawa draws an unadulterated portrait of youth.