Makiko Esumi Movies

A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

Mushi are beings in touch with the essence of life, far more basic and pure than normal living things. Most humans are incapable of perceiving Mushi...

To exact revenge, the Liar Game office is revived. The target is only one person: Shin'ichi Akiyama. Because of new heroine Shinomiya, Shin'ichi, who...

Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.

Kubozuka plays Araki Ryunosuke who starts working at a host club called "club NO.1" to pay his debt.

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

Yu Miri is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka,...

Makiko Esumi and Hirokazu Kore-eda revisit Wajima, the setting of 'Maborosi'

A man's soul (he is in a coma) must make a lonely woman happy or he will die on Christmas day.