A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.

Aesop's Game

2019

Japanese

5.5

♡ 5

Crime

ensemble cast

Fantasy

Shin'ichirô Ueda Director

Hinako Saeki as

Makiko Watanabe as Misako-kun

Ruka Ishikawa as Miwa Kameda

Hiroe Igeta as Saori Tokusa

Three girls - Miwa, an introvert who's best friend is her turtle, Saori, a rich girl from a celebrity family, and Koyuzu, a member of a revenge agency - wind up in a complex rivalry with one another.

Au Revoir L'Ete

2013

Japanese

7.1

♡ 5

Action

Drama

youth film

Kôji Fukada Director

Mayu Tsuruta as Kie Umi

Fumi Nikaidô as Sakuko

Makiko Watanabe as Sakuko's Aunt

Kanji Furutachi as Ukishi

After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to know the people of the town, including Takashi, a shy relative of her childhood friend.

M/Other

1999

Japanese

7.1

♡ 1

Drama

Nobuhiro Suwa Director

Makiko Watanabe as Aki

Hiroo Fuseya as Real estate agent

Ryudai Takahashi as Shun

Tomokazu Miura as Tetsuro

Tetsuro is living with his young girlfriend Aki in a pleasant house in Tokyo. They both spend a lot of time at their jobs. However their routine is upset when Tetsuro brings his 8-year-old son Shun to live with them, while his ex-wife recovers from a car accident.

Mayonaka otome sensô

2022

Japanese

5.4

♡ 5

Drama

Ken Ninomiya Director

Tasuku Emoto as Kurofuku

Akinori Andô as Matsumoto

Makiko Watanabe as Professor

Elaiza Ikeda as Senpai

I is a university, who came to Tokyo from his hometown. I lives alone and doesn't have friends or a girlfriend. I's university life is boring and he doesn't have a dream. I supports himself by working as a day laborer at a construction site. I meets two people at a hide-and-seek club. One is his Senior and the other person is Black Suit. By meeting them, I's boring life changes. They start the "Midnight Maiden War," which is their plan to destroy Tokyo.

My Sister, My Love

2007

Japanese

5.6

♡ 4

Action

Drama

Romance

Hiroshi Ando Director

Makiko Watanabe as

Yûta Hiraoka as Haruka Yano

Yûko Asano as Saki Yuki

Jun Matsumoto as Yori / Brother

It is a taboo story about love and incest between twins. It's not about sex, it's about the feelings the two have for one another and how society views them.

Torso

2009

Japanese

5.9

♡ 2

sister sister relationship

Yutaka Yamazaki Director

Yûko Nakamura as

Renji Ishibashi as Car rental man

Makiko Watanabe as Hiroko, older sister of Mina

Miyako Yamaguchi as Mother of Hiroko and Mina

Hiroko is a young, alienated woman "in love" with a blow-up male torso. Tension rises when her sister discovers her secret desire.

Small, Slow But Steady

2022

Japanese

6.9

♡ 7

100%

Shô Miyake Director

Makiko Watanabe as

Yukino Kishii as Keiko

Masaki Miura as Kobayashi

Tomokazu Miura as The Chairman

A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.

Voices in the Wind

2020

Japanese

6.9

♡ 9

Nobuhiro Suwa Director

Toshiyuki Nishida as

Makiko Watanabe as Hiroko

Tomokazu Miura as Kohei

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Morio

Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her touching search for answers, Haru sets out on a long, eventful journey to her home town, where she lost her family in the flood.

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Aesop's Game

Au Revoir L'Ete

M/Other

Mayonaka otome sensô

My Sister, My Love

Torso

Small, Slow But Steady

Voices in the Wind