Ataru Oikawa

Nacimiento : 1957-09-05,

Historia

Ataru Oikawa is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. While working as an editor at Magazine House, he wrote screenplays, and made his debut as a screenwriter with his original scenario DOOR. Later, he quit Magazine House and became a film director.

Películas

Shojyo Senso
Screenplay
A survival action thriller written and directed by Oikawa Ataru, who has been a leading figure on the Japanese low-budget horror scene since his breakthrough work Tomie. Its blood-drenched visuals tell a story of high school girls engaging in a battle to the death as part of a game organized by an underground website. School outcasts Rioka (Ishibashi Anna) and transfer student Yoshimura (Kirishima Rina) enter the world of a game run by an shady website on the invitation of their absent classmate Miki (Minami Yuki). Its objective is simple: a group of high school girls murder each other until one of them achieves seven kills.
Shojyo Senso
Director
A survival action thriller written and directed by Oikawa Ataru, who has been a leading figure on the Japanese low-budget horror scene since his breakthrough work Tomie. Its blood-drenched visuals tell a story of high school girls engaging in a battle to the death as part of a game organized by an underground website. School outcasts Rioka (Ishibashi Anna) and transfer student Yoshimura (Kirishima Rina) enter the world of a game run by an shady website on the invitation of their absent classmate Miki (Minami Yuki). Its objective is simple: a group of high school girls murder each other until one of them achieves seven kills.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Chikai
Writer
Maebara Keiichi, una joven adolescente, se mudó recientemente de la ciudad a la aldea rural de Hinamizawa con su familia. Se está adaptando bastante bien a su nueva vida, haciendo amigos en la escuela pequeña, jugando juegos, pasando el tiempo en relativa felicidad, cuando de repente se produce un asesinato espantoso. Un misterio comienza a desenredarse - remontándose a los acontecimientos hace cinco años. Mientras Keiichi aprende más sobre estos extraños acontecimientos, se pregunta si podrá enfrentar la verdad detrás de todo esto.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Chikai
Director
Maebara Keiichi, una joven adolescente, se mudó recientemente de la ciudad a la aldea rural de Hinamizawa con su familia. Se está adaptando bastante bien a su nueva vida, haciendo amigos en la escuela pequeña, jugando juegos, pasando el tiempo en relativa felicidad, cuando de repente se produce un asesinato espantoso. Un misterio comienza a desenredarse - remontándose a los acontecimientos hace cinco años. Mientras Keiichi aprende más sobre estos extraños acontecimientos, se pregunta si podrá enfrentar la verdad detrás de todo esto.
Nine Plus One
Screenplay
Ten actresses live in a folk hotel to prepare musical performances. One of the famous actresses suddenly disappeared without a cause, although less one, but the musical or as usual, but until the end of the show, the missing was still not found, it became a case. A year later, the remaining nine women each received a mysterious letter.
Nine Plus One
Director
Ten actresses live in a folk hotel to prepare musical performances. One of the famous actresses suddenly disappeared without a cause, although less one, but the musical or as usual, but until the end of the show, the missing was still not found, it became a case. A year later, the remaining nine women each received a mysterious letter.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
Writer
Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However when he starts to become suspicious that his friends may be deeply involved in successive murders that occur every summer, the situation around Keiichi gradually starts to turn into something more sinister.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
Director
Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However when he starts to become suspicious that his friends may be deeply involved in successive murders that occur every summer, the situation around Keiichi gradually starts to turn into something more sinister.
Kissho Tennyo
A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an Indian goddess. Sayoko is a kind of femme fatale, who uses her supernatural power to control people, especially men. While in the original manga Sayoko is represented as a femme fatale always surrounded by men, the film will focus on the friendship between Sayoko and her friend Yuiko Asai, both now on their first year at university.
Kissho Tennyo
Writer
A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an Indian goddess. Sayoko is a kind of femme fatale, who uses her supernatural power to control people, especially men. While in the original manga Sayoko is represented as a femme fatale always surrounded by men, the film will focus on the friendship between Sayoko and her friend Yuiko Asai, both now on their first year at university.
Kissho Tennyo
Director
A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an Indian goddess. Sayoko is a kind of femme fatale, who uses her supernatural power to control people, especially men. While in the original manga Sayoko is represented as a femme fatale always surrounded by men, the film will focus on the friendship between Sayoko and her friend Yuiko Asai, both now on their first year at university.
Apartamento 1303
Writer
Aunque el apartamento 1303 es céntrico y bonito, todas las chicas que entran a vivir en él acaban saltando al vacío desde sus ventanas. La última en suicidarse ha sido Sayaka, y su hermana Mariko no logra comprender qué ha podido ocurrir; sólo piensa en la extraña expresión que tenía su hermana momentos antes de saltar. En su intento por encontrar una explicación, Mariko se muda al apartamento 1303, y descubre que entre las paredes del apartamento hay mucho más horror del que se puede ver, incluido el fantasma de su hermana, que lucha por descansar en paz. (FILMAFFINITY)
Apartamento 1303
Director
Aunque el apartamento 1303 es céntrico y bonito, todas las chicas que entran a vivir en él acaban saltando al vacío desde sus ventanas. La última en suicidarse ha sido Sayaka, y su hermana Mariko no logra comprender qué ha podido ocurrir; sólo piensa en la extraña expresión que tenía su hermana momentos antes de saltar. En su intento por encontrar una explicación, Mariko se muda al apartamento 1303, y descubre que entre las paredes del apartamento hay mucho más horror del que se puede ver, incluido el fantasma de su hermana, que lucha por descansar en paz. (FILMAFFINITY)
Menotto
Screenplay
Menotto
Director
Tomie: Revenge
Writer
A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
Tomie: Revenge
Director
A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
Tomie: Beginning
Director
Within days after the mysterious new student Kawagami Tomie joins a high school classroom, all hell literally breaks loose. Simple in-fighting between boys and girls over Tomie's oppressive shadow soon gives way to mind-breaking violence, culminating in a grizzly dissection that ultimately leads to suicide, insanity, and even more violence.
Tokyo Psycho
Screenplay
Yumiko es una joven que, tras romper con su novio, está empezando a preocuparle la idea de quedarse soltera. Pero después de que empiecen a ocurrir extraños acontecimientos, se da cuenta de que quedarse soltera no es lo peor que puede pasarle; empieza a recibir extrañas cartas anónimas que le proponen matrimonio con horribles fotos de ella de niña cubierta de sangre. Cuando descubre que su inquietante admirador es un antiguo compañero de clase, Igumi, sus preocupaciones no disminuyen. Yumiko empieza a recordar cosas que tenía totalmente olvidadas y junto a su amigo Miko decide investigar qué está pasando.
Tokyo Psycho
Director
Yumiko es una joven que, tras romper con su novio, está empezando a preocuparle la idea de quedarse soltera. Pero después de que empiecen a ocurrir extraños acontecimientos, se da cuenta de que quedarse soltera no es lo peor que puede pasarle; empieza a recibir extrañas cartas anónimas que le proponen matrimonio con horribles fotos de ella de niña cubierta de sangre. Cuando descubre que su inquietante admirador es un antiguo compañero de clase, Igumi, sus preocupaciones no disminuyen. Yumiko empieza a recordar cosas que tenía totalmente olvidadas y junto a su amigo Miko decide investigar qué está pasando.
The Groaning Drain
Director
Set in a house in the suburbs, the film uses black humor to depict the horrors caused by a strange drainage pipe that drags people in.
Cutie Girl
Director
In the near future Japan's economy is in shambles and bet bowling is huge. Team Kingpin hopes the government will ban bet bowling so they can open a casino. The team full of beautiful girls, team allways, engages in a fierce battle to stop them.
Lovers' Kiss
Screenplay
LOVERS' KISS (ラヴァーズ・キス?) is a 2003 Japanese romance movie based on a manga by Akimi Yoshida. This is a youth movie of six teenagers (three boys and three girls) whom it is focused on, taking place in Kamakura.
Lovers' Kiss
Director
LOVERS' KISS (ラヴァーズ・キス?) is a 2003 Japanese romance movie based on a manga by Akimi Yoshida. This is a youth movie of six teenagers (three boys and three girls) whom it is focused on, taking place in Kamakura.
Tamagawa Girl War
Writer
An action film depicting the friendship and betrayal of a group of bad girls. A yakuza movie with popular idols.
Tamagawa Girl War
Director
An action film depicting the friendship and betrayal of a group of bad girls. A yakuza movie with popular idols.
Samurai Girl 21
Director
Hagakure Makoto, young and cute, is trying to find a regular job to help support her family. She has no training in the real world, and she will meet with several corporate evils. But she was trained as a samurai by her grandfather, which will be useful to battle the evils of the world, including a bad samurai girl who is protected by an impenetrable net armor - with a week spot, like Achilles' heel. Eventually, it will come the time Makoto must leave this world - passing her skills into another young and cute girl.
Dead Beat
Writer
Japanese action film directed by Hiroshi Ando.
Tomie
Writer
Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?
Tomie
Director
Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?
The Metropolitan Police Branch 82
Screenplay
Two mismatched policewomen are assigned to guard and observe a released prisoner who has connections with a women-only gang who are suspected of counterfeiting.
Shibuya Night Wars
Director
A Shibuya-kei violence movie in which ferocious love runs fast. The director is Ataru Oikawa. Beasts that cut through the darkness. Prostitution, yak buying and selling, tear gas bullets and pistols are readily available, and team conflicts are unchecked. Such a city, Shibuya. The bloody struggle between the twin brothers Keita and Yuta, who manage the club "Phantom" and partition Shibuya, and the Ikebukuro team "Lucky's" was also intensifying. Eiji, the leader of "Lucky's", teams up with Tanabe of the yakuza organization Hanyukai to challenge the final battle. They stabbed Toru, one of Keita's team, and abducted and confined Mamoru, who was sending information about "Lucky's" to Keita. And the future of the final battle...
Romantic Mania
Screenplay
The Boy Made in Japan
Yamato Tanaka, who attempted to murder his father in the past, used to work as a janitor in a theme park. Now unemployed, Yamato lives in a very humble apartment room. He lost his family by the crime he committed with the urge he himself couldn’t and even now can explain. He has nowhere to go, and becomes isolated in the big city. His continuous job search is unsuccessful, and one day he meets a young girl Kaoru who is passing out advertisement packaged with free tissue to the crowd at a train station. He aggressively gets involved with her. The two immediately feel the mutual isolation and desperation within themselves. These are youngsters with no purpose in their lives, symbolizing the Japanese society which passed the post-war economic peak period. Yamato and Kaoru go down the road of destruction, being sucked into the deep, dark ditch of society. Filling the screen images both stark and surreal, director Ataru Oikawa draws an unadulterated portrait of youth.
The Boy Made in Japan
Director
Yamato Tanaka, who attempted to murder his father in the past, used to work as a janitor in a theme park. Now unemployed, Yamato lives in a very humble apartment room. He lost his family by the crime he committed with the urge he himself couldn’t and even now can explain. He has nowhere to go, and becomes isolated in the big city. His continuous job search is unsuccessful, and one day he meets a young girl Kaoru who is passing out advertisement packaged with free tissue to the crowd at a train station. He aggressively gets involved with her. The two immediately feel the mutual isolation and desperation within themselves. These are youngsters with no purpose in their lives, symbolizing the Japanese society which passed the post-war economic peak period. Yamato and Kaoru go down the road of destruction, being sucked into the deep, dark ditch of society. Filling the screen images both stark and surreal, director Ataru Oikawa draws an unadulterated portrait of youth.
The Boy Made in Japan
Writer
Yamato Tanaka, who attempted to murder his father in the past, used to work as a janitor in a theme park. Now unemployed, Yamato lives in a very humble apartment room. He lost his family by the crime he committed with the urge he himself couldn’t and even now can explain. He has nowhere to go, and becomes isolated in the big city. His continuous job search is unsuccessful, and one day he meets a young girl Kaoru who is passing out advertisement packaged with free tissue to the crowd at a train station. He aggressively gets involved with her. The two immediately feel the mutual isolation and desperation within themselves. These are youngsters with no purpose in their lives, symbolizing the Japanese society which passed the post-war economic peak period. Yamato and Kaoru go down the road of destruction, being sucked into the deep, dark ditch of society. Filling the screen images both stark and surreal, director Ataru Oikawa draws an unadulterated portrait of youth.
Gappie, Wear a Tie this Summer
Screenplay
It is a youth group of third-class university students struggling to get a job at a first-class company.
Dangerous Stories
Screenplay
Three stories with horror and science fiction elements. 1st episode: "The Curse of Tutankhamen" (Tsutankâmen no noroï) by Kazuyuki Izutsu. With Naoto Takenaka. Two clans of Yakuza clash in a bar. 2nd episode: "They came back, tonight too" (Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. With Renji Ishibashi. A polar writer is pursued by two mysterious mountebanks. 3rd episode: "I want to come back to this day" (Ano hi ni kaeritai) by Banmei Takahashi. With Toshiyuki Nagashima. A couple who robbed a bank decides to separate to escape the police.
Door
Writer
A housewife, Yasuko lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s finger when he tries to squeeze a flyer through chained door. He leaves but the next day, her nightmare starts.