Asuka Kurosawa
Known for Acting
Asuka Kurosawa was born on December 22, 1971 in Kanagawa, Japan as Asuka Okasaka. She is an actress.
Born
December 22, 1971 (age 54)
Birthplace
Kanagawa, Japan
Filmography
49 films, 18 shows
Known for Acting
Asuka Kurosawa was born on December 22, 1971 in Kanagawa, Japan as Asuka Okasaka. She is an actress.
Born
December 22, 1971 (age 54)
Birthplace
Kanagawa, Japan
Filmography
49 films, 18 shows

Teki Cometh
2025 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
Retired university professor Gisuke Watanabe lives a comfortable but secluded life of affluence in the traditional Japanese house built by his grandfather. One day, an anonymous email threatens his peaceful lifestyle.

Soyoko
2024 · 45m
country: Japan
Soyoko is a 19-year-old girl with ADHD who clings on to dreams of studying at an art school while juggling a part-time job and caring for her disabled father. As overburdened caregivers quit around her and with no relatives to help, Soyoko desperately applies for welfare but a callous caseworker makes increasingly awful demands for funds leading a vulnerable and isolated Soyoko into a terrible situation.

Walking Woman
2024 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
After an accident clouds her memory, Yuri works at a real-estate office, until a client’s arrival triggers visions and a slithering “shoe creature.” Following the eerie signs, she uncovers the buried truth of her past.

広重ぶるう
2024
country: Japan

Performing Kaoru's Funeral
2024 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
When a screenwriter named KAORU dies suddenly, she leaves behind a tangle of relations who are all pulled together for the final act in her life: performing her funeral. The chief mourner is her ex-husband, Jun. A failed actor, he drifts around Tokyo as a driver for callgirls. He has to clean himself up to lead the ceremony down in the small village in Okayama that KAORU came from. There, he meets a host of eccentric characters, TV people, and KAORU ’s daughter, all of whom have complicated feelings for the recently departed. As can be guessed, the funeral becomes chaotic as people quarrel and fight but the fact that KAORU was loved is not in doubt as nostalgia, bitterness, and affection for the woman come out from each mourner in comic confrontations.

Father, Father
2023
country: Unknown
Father, Father

Yoko
2023 · 1h 53m
country: Japan
A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori, where she has not returned for 24 years, after hearing the news of her father's death.

Saga Saga
2023 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
28-year-old Kyoko return to her hometown of Ureshino in Saga Prefecture from Tokyo after a stint as an actress. It is here that she “runs” into Nahoko, her half-sister. Nahoko is secretly stalking Kyoko. Things get a lot more complicated when another half-sister is revealed.

Sing in Love
2022 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
A respected teacher’s life unravels after a brutal assault and a public humiliation. Now, he must choose between silence and revenge.

Over and Over Again
2022 · 21m
country: Japan
Shuhei passes the telephone booth installed on the side of the railway and goes home. It was a family reunion once a week, but an odd couple who moved in close to me visited me and started saying and acting as if to stir up the family.

Intimate Stranger
2022 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
A psychological thriller set in the post-COVID Tokyo. The film follows a woman looking for her missing son, and a shady young man who approaches her, claiming to know her son.

Restart
2021 · 1h 21m
country: Unknown
Mio came to Tokyo with her sights on becoming a singer/songwriter, but that dream was dashed by a scandal without her ever becoming successful. She returns heartbroken to her hometown of Shimokawa where connecting with her parents, her former classmates, and the rich natural surroundings help her emotionally recover.

Suicide Forest Village
2021 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.

Beautiful Escape
2020 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Akihiko Kobe, a first-year high school student with a stutter, is a target of bullying in his class and spent his days depressed. Akihiko lives at home with a face that can not endure anything and kills God in his brain every day. One day, I accidentally see a classmate, a brilliant and intelligent girl student, Mitsuri Nanao killing a cat. Kuri was inspired by the blood she saw during her period and had a desire to see the blood of others. Kuri then tells Akihiko that she has a desire for murder and proposes to kill the bullying group. The two begin to kill, and go east to escape, killing them. New generation youth splatter road movie

Lost Girls & Love Hotels
2020 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Searching for escape in Tokyo's back alleys, a haunted English teacher explores love and lust with a dashing Yakuza, as their tumultuous affair takes her on a journey through the city's dive bars and three-hour love hotels.

The Japanese Doll
2019 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
University students Yuri and Masato accept a peculiar invitation to a campground party, but things turn deadly when a cursed doll starts to attack.

The Promised Land
2019 · 2h 9m
country: Japan
A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding.

Kakame - Vampire Clay Derivation
2019 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Kakame, the evil mud through which a frustrated artist filled his revenge spirit, returns to the charge in this direct continuation of Vampire Clay.

The Flowers of Evil
2019 · 2h 7m
country: Japan
A high school student steals the panties of a girl he likes but is witnessed, which sets off a chain of events that send his life and the lives of others around him out of control.

Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku
2018
country: Unknown
Eiso Tsubaki, a former aristocrat, was suspected in a murder case in Ginza and committed suicide. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke, who is commissioned by Tsubaki's daughter, Mineko, and believes in her father's innocence, witnesses a bizarre fortune-telling session at the Tsubaki mansion. That night, another murder occurs within the mansion. A visual adaptation of Seishi Yokomizo's gothic horror.

Vampire Clay
2018 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
Absurdity and gore ensue as a possessed pile of clay begins terrorizing students at an art school.

Saori, Piling Up
2018 · 39m
country: Japan
A middle-aged housewife's frustrations with her boorish husband "pile up" until she can take it no more.

Last Judgement
2018 · 30m
country: Japan
A young man who's failed the Tokyo University of the Arts exam five times is jealous of a talented high school artist who eventually helps him unlock his hidden potential. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Hirugao
2017 · 2h 5m
country: Japan
Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly. The two meet again and their love story continue.

Silence
2016 · 2h 41m
country: Mexico
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

Lost Serenade
2016 · 1h 51m
country: Unknown
Kaori (Nori Sato) runs a small piano studio. One of her students is Yuu (Uwa Ishibashi). On the way from a recital, Kaori is sexually assaulted by Yuu's father (Kentaro Furuyama). Kaori later learns Yuu has also been sexually abused by her father. Kaori and Yuu share each other's pain and eventually Kaori decides to fulfill Yuu's wish.

The Rite of Loss
2016
country: Japan

Thorn
2015 · 16m
country: Japan
A high-school boy with telekinesis kills himself after being bullied and beaten by his classmates. The boy had been secretly storing his special power in his pet cactus. After the boy's death, the cactus is passed onto his mother who inherits his power and vows to avenge his death.

The World of Kanako
2014 · 1h 58m
country: Japan
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father can not even imagine.

I Hate Tokyo
2013 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
Natsumi (Kie Kitano) moves to Tokyo to enter a fine arts university. In Tokyo, Natsumi meets Ryosuke and they soon become a couple. Ryosuke is a good person, but he doesn't have a job. Every day he just loafs around. To pay for her living expenses, Natsumi begins work at bar. Natsumi and Ryosuke become estranged from each other. They decide to break up. Natsumi's book is finally published.

Jellyfish Eyes
2013 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
In present-day Japan, little Masashi moves from an evacuation center to a small village. There, he will discover that every child has the ability to communicate with a fantastic creature, but they are being used in an evil plan to collect the children’s negative energy.

Making of Himizu
2012 · 1h 12m
country: Unknown
A documentary showcasing the making of Sion Sono's Himizu

Miss Boys! Yûjô no yukue-hen
2012 · 1h 19m
country: Japan
A year after the cross-dressing tournament, the fan club is weakened, it only has two members left. But a new kid who seems to be a fan of "Masamin" makes his appearance. Kaneko, for his part, feels a certain weariness in the attractiveness of his friend and will try to shine on his own, leaving the club...

Himizu
2012 · 2h 10m
country: Japan
Two 14-year-olds from troubled, abusive homes come together sharing misery and pain. In the aftermath of an earthquake, the classmates learn how to survive while relying on one another for emotional and physical support.

Cold Fish
2011 · 2h 26m
country: Japan
When fish shop owner Shamoto's teenage daughter Mitsuko is caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man named Murata helps resolve the situation. The man and his wife offer to have Mitsuko work at their opposing fish store. Shamoto soon discovers that something far more sinister lives behind Murata's friendly demeanor.

Sanctuary
2006 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
A child suddenly disappears in a small village and his mother desperately searches for clues.

Memories of Matsuko
2006 · 2h 10m
country: Japan
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.

Water Flower
2005 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Minako is at the age where her father is more like an alien to her than a person. The situation is exacerbated when he comes home drunk one night and tries to climb on top of her. Minako's mother deserted them for another man when Minako was a child. Now working as a hostess, she has little time for her own six year-old daughter, Yu, Minako's half sister. Both girls are yearning for their mother's love. Minako runs into Yu at a game center in the mall and proposes they take a trip. She changes out of her school uniform and into adult clothes and the pair hops on an overnight bus out of the city.

Hibi
2005 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to fight hard to find a donor who has matching bone marrow.

Dead Waves
2005 · 1h 17m
country: Japan
When a television producer visits the home of a brother and sister to interview them for his series on paranormal phenomena, what first appears to be a simple case of psychopathology turns into a full-blown epidemic of demonic manifestation. To his horror he realizes that he is not only a witness to the blossoming insanity, filming each scream and horrific expression, but that he and his technology have been intricately tied to the cause and conduit of its spread…

Déracine
2004 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
A mysterious street-painter, Jouji, wanders aimlessly, homeless. Together with his homeless pals, he makes his living by selling his paintings on the street. His paintings, dynamically exploding on pieces of cardboard, catch the eyes of Kyoko, an art dealer. He can feel alive only if he keeps painting, but unable to find something to fill his void inside, he tries to drown himself in alcohol. Drawn to Jouji, Kyoko commissions him to paint for her. The two travel to a secluded mountain-side, and there Jouji becomes inspired both by the natural surroundings and Kyoko herself.

Kirei? The Terror of Beauty
2004 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
A mentally unstable young woman named Yoshie implores a gifted plastic surgeon (Yukiko Okamoto) to make her beautiful in this disturbing Japanese psychodrama directed by Katsuya Matsumura. Although the operation is successful, Yoshie becomes even more preoccupied with beauty -- and soon draws the doctor into a horrifying world of emotional agony and masochism. The film's supporting cast includes Asuka Kurosawa, Kota Kusano and Miki Asakura.

A Snake of June
2003 · 1h 17m
country: Japan
Rinko, a woman in a sexless marriage, is blackmailed by a stalker with intimate photos, forcing her into a series of erotic acts that disrupt her mundane life.
Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman
Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman
1998 · 1h 33m
country: Japan

The Cold-Blooded Trap
1998 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya.

Blue Fake
1998 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Ayaka and Echika are asked to locate a woman who makes harassing phone calls to a popular DJ, but...

A Story of Modern Chivalry
1997 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of revenge for his great friend.

The Trap
1996 · 1h 53m
country: Japan
When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police baffled and the city terrified.

The Files of Young Kindaichi: Snow Yaksha Legend Murder Case
1995 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Hajime Kindaichi is working a part time job as an assistant to a TV station for the filming of a shock show. They have invited celebrities in Segori Village and are planning to scare them by playing pranks on them such as fake deaths. However, a threatening letter arrives and soon, a real murder occurs broadcasted in front of everyone.