Known for Directing
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.
Born
September 5, 1957 (age 68)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Filmography
46 films, 1 show
Shojyo Senso
2011 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
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.
Maison Temptation
2009 · 1h 7m
country: Japan
"Phantom TV: Mika's House" is a streaming site where you can peek into the private life of a very sexy woman (Mika: Kotono), and if you answer a quiz correctly, you can actually meet Mika! The site is so elusive that it has become an urban legend, with rumors that "men who go to meet her never return." Yuichi was one of those searching for the site, and luckily he managed to find it, he won the quiz and received an invitation to Mika's house. When Yuichi arrives at the house, he sees a bizarre scene in the dim light, with masked men peeking at Mika in her underwear through the curtains. The quiz continues until only one person remains to meet Mika. Yuichi also puts on a mask. When Yuichi takes off his mask, he finds his friend Takashi standing before him. The final question requires you to go behind the curtain, point a pistol at your head, and pull the trigger, but Takashi does not return to the room. What is behind the curtain? And what is the purpose of this game?
Shrill Cries: Reshuffle
2009 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
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.
9 + 1
2008 · 1h 8m
country: Japan
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.
Shrill Cries of Summer
2008 · 1h 46m
country: Japan
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.
Kissho Tennyo
2007 · 1h 56m
country: Japan
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.
Apartment 1303
2007 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
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.
Menotto
2005
country: Japan
Tomie: Revenge
2005 · 1h 12m
country: Japan
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: Beginning
2005 · 1h 14m
country: Japan
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.
Tokyo Psycho
2004 · 1h 18m
country: Japan
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.
The Groaning Drain
2004 · 1h 18m
country: Japan
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.
Neo Document Series ZONE
2004 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
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?
Fight Girls
2003 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Youth Sports film directed by Ataru Oikawa
Cutie Girl
2003 · 1h 4m
country: Japan
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.
Lovers' Kiss
2003 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
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.
Tamagawa Girl War
2002 · 1h 42m
country: Japan
An action film depicting the friendship and betrayal of a group of bad girls. A yakuza movie with popular idols.
Gang 2
2001 · 1h 25m
country: Unknown
Odaiba, on the Tokyo Bay waterfront. Now a major Tokyo tourist attraction, lined with a giant Ferris wheel, broadcasting stations and massive shopping centres. In Odaiba, a series of disappearances involving young women had been occurring. Meanwhile, just as the Odaiba Boys’ Gang—who had grown complacent following a lull in turf wars between rival gangs—were becoming a little too complacent, news arrived that Riku of the Kisarazu Mad Dogs had been released from prison. Revenge against Nao! And he’s brought along the Tsuchigumo siblings—the ultimate reinforcements. Around the same time, the series of women’s disappearances began to take a sudden turn. Lurking behind the scenes was the smouldering scent of a turf war between the Horigome-gumi and the Tanabe-gumi. And what is the true identity of Nao, the woman who holds the key to the disappearances!? Then one day, Riku, the Tsuchigumo Siblings and the others encountered Shu, Zaza, Jiji and Mazuru…
Gang
2001 · 1h 15m
country: Unknown
Odaiba, on the Tokyo Bay waterfront. The Odaiba Boys—a gang based here, comprising Sancon, Shu, Zaza, Jiji, Muzzle and the rest—were hanging out as usual. One day, a woman named Rei appeared before them, claiming she was searching for their leader, Nao, who had gone missing two years earlier. Around the same time, a masked man calling himself Nao appeared before rival gangs—the Kawasaki Security Squad and the Tsurumi Cruise CATS—and ran riot. Was this really Nao’s doing? Behind the scenes, a grand scheme was unfolding, orchestrated by a Member of the House of Representatives seeking to line his pockets and the Kōryū-kai, the yakuza organisation that controls Odaiba.
Samurai Girl 21
Samurai Girl 21
2001 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
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.
Tomie
1998 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
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?
Shibuya Night Wars
1998 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
A Shibuya-kei violence movie in which ferocious love runs fast. The director is Ataru Oikawa. Beasts that cut through the darkness. Prostitution, yak buying and selling, tear gas bullets and pistols are readily available, and team conflicts are unchecked. Such a city, Shibuya. The bloody struggle between the twin brothers Keita and Yuta, who manage the club "Phantom" and partition Shibuya, and the Ikebukuro team "Lucky's" was also intensifying. Eiji, the leader of "Lucky's", teams up with Tanabe of the yakuza organization Hanyukai to challenge the final battle. They stabbed Toru, one of Keita's team, and abducted and confined Mamoru, who was sending information about "Lucky's" to Keita. And the future of the final battle...
The Boy Made in Japan
1995 · 1h 45m
country: 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.
Octopus Army I Want to Meet You in Shibuya
1990 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
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.