Kanako Higashi

Películas

Boy Sprouted
A boy who can't eat a tomato was pushed by his mother to overcome his least favorite. When he swallowed it, something sprouted from his own body. The boy doubted the tomato he ate and visited a tomato farm to find out what happened to him. There he met a scary farmer and ran away. The mother still tries to make her son able to eat a tomato. This script was generated from AI, shot by alumnus of the national film school as a cutting-edge R&D project.
Shell and Joint
Sakura Sakurada
Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.
My Long Awaited Love Story
Riko is 27, working as a love simulation game designer, and she no longer has big expectations for a man in her life. One day app company TIMEIS, lead by Soichiro, hires her to work on their latest game.
Los árboles del Albino
Nagi
Las montañas del centro de Japón. Para pagar los gastos médicos para el tratamiento de la enfermedad de su madre, Yuku acepta un contrato lucrativo para matar a un extraño ciervo blanco que vive en el bosque en un pueblo remoto, y cuya presencia se cree que socava el turismo en la región. Sin embargo, cuando se aventura en el pueblo, descubre que el animal es venerado como un dios por la comunidad local, que vive en un estado de semi aislamiento del resto de la sociedad. Mientras evalúa sus responsabilidades éticas al llevar a cabo tal tarea, se acerca a los habitantes de la aldea, enfrentando sus emociones conflictivas sobre si deben seguir viviendo como "forasteros".
Octopus
Actress
Squid have 10 legs. Octopuses have 8 legs. Added together, that’s 18 legs.
Kumiko, la cazadora de tesoros
Michi
Una solitaria mujer japonesa se convence de que un bolso con dinero enterrado en la película 'Fargo' es real. Dejando atrás su estructurada vida en Tokio por la congelada Minnesota, ella se embarca en una búsqueda impulsiva para encontrar la mítica fortuna perdida.
The Vancouver Asahi
In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of their Caucasian counterparts. But one thing made their lives worth living: baseball. They may be the underdogs, but the Vancouver Asahi baseball team have a sense of fair play and smart tactics that set them apart from the brute force of their opponents. Under the guidance of new team captain Reggie Kasahara, can they be able to rise above all the negativity to win the tournament? This film is based on the true story of Vancouver Asahi, the Japanese-Canadian baseball team that was inducted into The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003.
Petrel Hotel Blue
Seeking to exact revenge upon Yoji, Yukio travels to an area surrounded by the sea, desert and lava topped mountains. There, Yukio meets mysterious Rika and becomes enchanted by her presence. While, Yukio can't get Rika out of his mind, he faces off against Masakazu, a former subordinate of Yoji, and a detective chasing Rika.
Underwear Affair
In a present, Asako, a housewife, lives with her 5-year-old son in a country side, separated from her husband who runs kindergarden. When she was young, she lives with her mother and young sister in a tiny and dirty apartment. A scar on her thigh, underwear, smell of those places... One day, those elements of her two different times comes cross strangely.
Genkai in a Black Company
After the death of this mother, Masao Oneta (Teppei Koike) decides to leave the comfort of his room after years of self isolation and get a job. He lands a position at a small IT firm but doesn't yet realise this company is one of many 'black companies', known for overworking their employees.