Hirobumi Watanabe

叫び声

Hirobumi Watanabe

Hirobumi Watanabe, Misao Hirayama

The latest unique human drama from Hirobumi and Yuji Watanabe portrays, in black and white and without words, a man who lives with his aging grandmother and works silently in a pigpen.

わたしは元気

Hirobumi Watanabe

Riko Hisatsugu, Nanaka Sudo

A normal day for little Riko at home and at school. A vivid snapshot pervaded by the calm flow of reality that creates an authentic sense of wonder.

街の上で

Rikiya Imaizumi

Ryuya Wakaba, Moeka Hoshi

Arakawa Ao lives happily on his own and hardly ever leaves Shimokitazawa, where he works at a vintage clothing shop, goes to occasional concerts and hangs out at his favorite bar. Then, he gets an unusual request to appear in an independent film.

プールサイドマン

Hirobumi Watanabe

Gaku Imamura, Yukiko Hachisu

In a suburb north of Tokyo that seems to be secluded from the world’s madness and malice, Yusuke Mizuhara works as a lifeguard at a swimming pool. With no family, friends or love, his life is lonely and monotonous. One day, he goes to another pool as a replacement guard with his unpopular co-worker Koji Shirasaki…

7 Days

Hirobumi Watanabe

In a farming village north of Tokyo, a man lives with his aging grandmother and works day after day at a cow shed that looks like a relic from another era. Their routine repeats in tune with nature, portrayed tranquilly and persistently in black and white without words.

普通は走り出す

Hirobumi Watanabe

Hirobumi Watanabe, Minori Hagiwara

Born out of every artist’s creative crisis, the search for the next topic, Hirobumi WATANABE presents his latest film, dealing with the question of what his film should be about. The director stages himself as he idles away his days, delivering endless monologs during car rides, sleeping on the floor at his grandma’s house, or philosophizing over video games and the FIFA World Cup.

地球はお祭り騒ぎ

Hirobumi Watanabe

Gaku Imamura, Hirobumi Watanabe

Poolsideman's Watanabe Brothers stamp their trademark brand of humor and melancholy on this gem of a road movie, as two Beatlemaniacs plan and then travel to Tokyo for a Paul McCartney concert.

Soshite dorobune wa yuku

Hirobumi Watanabe

Satoshi Haneishi, Misao Hirayama

Takashi is country hipster, work avoiding, not-so-smart life expert in vague rural-urban area in the north from Tokyo. He lives together with his grandmother and laughs at his friend who goes to real work - shoveling cow manure. On one day, a young woman arrives to the area and claims to be Takashi's half-sister from this' father's escapade. And she is the kind you can't get easily rid off...

蒲田前奏曲

Hirobumi Watanabe, Yuka Yasukawa

Urara Matsubayashi, Kotone Furukawa

A four-part film done in the unique style of each director, Matusbayashi Urara gives a portrayal of a struggling actress named Machiko who lives in Kamata. Machiko is the central axis of the movie as the film comically depicts what it means to be a "woman" and an "actress" in society through showing the patterns of life as conducted by her and the people that surround her.

眠る虫

Yurina Kaneko

Ryo Matsuura, Yura Sato

Kanako Seri is on a packed bus heading to band practice. She becomes fascinated by a melody being hummed by another passenger, an old woman.