Kôji Kawano

Birth : 1972-10-21, Fukuoka, Japan

Movies

Let's Eat Together, Aki and Haru
Director
A heartwarming story between roommates Aki and Haru, two college students who have different personalities and worries but share a love for food.
ツナガレラジオ〜僕らの雨降Days〜
Director
Commuting to School Series On the Way to School
Director
Yuki is introverted and not very good with love. She has a crush on somebody, but he already has a girlfriend. Kou is in the same art club as Yuki and has feelings for her.
Commuting to School Series Commuter Tram
Director
Yuna has a crush on Haru. She sees him on the train every morning when she goes to school. She doesn't know anything about him and he goes to a different school from her. One morning, she wakes up and finds Haru sleeping right next to her.
行方不明
Director
Members of a university film circle arrive on an uninhabited island for filming. The two-day shooting went successfully as planned, however the pick-up that should have come did not. A few days later, one of the crew members is found dead.
ほしのふるまち
Screenplay
A boy from Tokyo moves to the countryside and has trouble adapting, falls in love.
ほしのふるまち
Director
A boy from Tokyo moves to the countryside and has trouble adapting, falls in love.
072 Squadron: G Rangers
Director
The year is 2099, there is tumult everywhere and Japan is dominated by a secretive society. A mysterious girl called Shin roams the country and its outlands. There is an investigation, infiltration, an alliance and a betrayal. What is to become of Japan given its rulers, the outlaw and the Green Turtle?
Gangsta
Director
A youth drama based on the first Yankee novel by Fuyuki Shindo, starring Hiromi Sakimoto, who is popular as a member of the Hexagon family. Aiming to be the strongest in the school, the passionate life of high school students who are quarreling is depicted.
An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women
Director
This is an omnibus of six short films by six different directors, whose lead characters are unconventional women. They are "Hijoshi," females who live true to themselves and their desires.
1 Month Like Summer Vacation
Director
Ever since bike messenger Junya lost his pro cyclist father in a traffic accident one year ago, he's spent his days in lethargy. While out on a delivery, he spots a man, Shintarou, considering jumping from the roof of a building. By chance, the two meet later on after an accident caused by Shintarou sends Junya to the hospital. From there starts the story of their ill-fated friendship.
Cruel Restaurant
Writer
Just what is the mystery ingredient in the pot stickers at Togen Restaurant? Those who look for the answer have a habit of disappearing. So when body parts start washing up on the beach, police trace the murders to Togen's seemingly innocent owner. But the slaughter of a few curious fans is the least shocking secret coming out of Togen's kitchen! Mihiro, Sakae Yamazaki, Katsuya Naruse and Yusuke Iwata star in this pitch-black comic horror tale.
Cruel Restaurant
Director
Just what is the mystery ingredient in the pot stickers at Togen Restaurant? Those who look for the answer have a habit of disappearing. So when body parts start washing up on the beach, police trace the murders to Togen's seemingly innocent owner. But the slaughter of a few curious fans is the least shocking secret coming out of Togen's kitchen! Mihiro, Sakae Yamazaki, Katsuya Naruse and Yusuke Iwata star in this pitch-black comic horror tale.
Attack Girls' Swim Team Versus the Undead
Director
A psycho scientist sent in to inoculate the luscious young student bodies against a new virus makes a little error in judgment, resulting in a not-so-little flesh-eating zombie problem. Now, with most of the school and all of the teachers running amuck, eating each other, having rabid sex and juggling, it's up to Aki and her new found allies on the Girls Swim Team to take care of business.
Love My Life
Director
Ichiko and Eri are two beautiful Japanese university students who are in a lesbian relationship. Ichiko comes out to her father who tells her he is also gay and her mother was a lesbian. Her best friend is gay too, though he has a female who is after him. Their liaison is very intense, but Eri suggests a temporary separation so she can concentrate on her law studies. The break from their affair is difficult for Ichiko to deal with. But Eri soon sorts out her priorities.
Murder Net
Writer
Ai (Sorami Imura), who attends a girls' school in Tokyo, spends her student life with her classmates from middle school, Fuyumi, Chiharu, Akiko and Yoko. One day, a chain mail called "murder net" arrives on Ai's mobile phone. According to rumors, "You can kill someone by including the name of the person you want to kill and sending it to them." Ai didn't believe the rumors at all, but Fuyumi tells Ai to put her name on and send it, and Ai reluctantly sends her the name of Fuyumi. Immediately after that, Fuyumi jumps from the roof and commits suicide. After Fuyumi's death, a mysterious accident occurrs one after another, and the teacher dies... Did Fuyumi die due to the "murder net" sent by Ai?
Murder Net
Director
Ai (Sorami Imura), who attends a girls' school in Tokyo, spends her student life with her classmates from middle school, Fuyumi, Chiharu, Akiko and Yoko. One day, a chain mail called "murder net" arrives on Ai's mobile phone. According to rumors, "You can kill someone by including the name of the person you want to kill and sending it to them." Ai didn't believe the rumors at all, but Fuyumi tells Ai to put her name on and send it, and Ai reluctantly sends her the name of Fuyumi. Immediately after that, Fuyumi jumps from the roof and commits suicide. After Fuyumi's death, a mysterious accident occurrs one after another, and the teacher dies... Did Fuyumi die due to the "murder net" sent by Ai?
In The Site
Writer
Soon after meeting a spectral child in the endless corridors of a modern hospital, a woman returns home to find a mysterious e-mail waiting in her inbox. Upon opening the message, the woman is transported into a paranormal universe unlike anything she has ever experienced. Once there, she quickly discovers that the only way home is to solve the mystery surrounding the death of an innocent young boy.
In The Site
Director
Soon after meeting a spectral child in the endless corridors of a modern hospital, a woman returns home to find a mysterious e-mail waiting in her inbox. Upon opening the message, the woman is transported into a paranormal universe unlike anything she has ever experienced. Once there, she quickly discovers that the only way home is to solve the mystery surrounding the death of an innocent young boy.