Machiko Ono – MRQE

Frog River (V)

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel.

Ponokku tanpen gekijô: Chiisa na eiyû – Kani to tamago to tômei ningen

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two tiny, aquatic humanoids search for their missing father, a boy battles a lethal allergy to eggs, and an invisible salaryman tries to become a hero.

Myûjiamu

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Tokyo, Japan, several grotesque murders take place on rainy days. Detective Sawamura, who is in charge of the case, soon discovers that his own family is connected to the crimes.

Too Young to Die

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.

Kamisama wa Bali ni iru

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sachiko runs a business in Japan, but her business fails. She then escapes to Bali. There, Sachiko meets rich Japanese man Aniki. From him, Sachiko gets encouragement.

Like Father, Like Son

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

Masakiku araba

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Poet Okachimachi Kaito makes his directing debut. Featuring lead actress Ono Machiko, who starred in The Mourning Forest (Mogari no Mori) and is also a regular in director Kawase Naomi’s other works, this film portrays the pure love between a prisoner sentenced to death and the fiance of the man he killed, and was nominated to be in the section “Japanese Eyes” in the Tokyo International Film Festival. Jun (Kubota Masashi) receives the death penalty for a botched robbery that turned into murder and while in prison, he is visited by Kaoru (Ono), a Christian and the fiance of the man he killed. However, when her fiance was killed, he was secretly with another woman. Jun and Kaoru soon become attracted to one another and, using a bible, they start to communicate in secret.

Mogari no mori

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A caregiver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.

Kôrogi

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live a peaceful life in a house on the coast. There she takes care of an old deaf, dumb and blind man as if he were an insect, a child or a pet. He cant do anything for himself, so she feeds him and accompanies him on his walks. This strong mutual dependency offers Kaoru an escape from society and allows her to free herself from restrictions imposed by common sense.

Naisu no mori: The First Contact

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair’s portly Caucasian brother.