Norifumi Ataka

Películas

#Manhole
Production Design
Kawamura Shunsuke works for a real estate company. He is usually first at first when it comes to sales. He is respected by his boss and colleagues. Kawamura Shunsuke is also set to marry the daughter of the CEO of his company. His life is going great by every metric one can think of. On the day before his wedding, his colleagues hold a surprise party for him. On his way home from the party, Kawamura Shunsuke falls into a deep manhole. When he wakes up, it is late at night and he struggles to get out of the manhole. His wedding is also fast approaching.
Aristocrats
Art Direction
Hanako Haibara was born and raised in the city of Tokyo. After she gets dumped by her boyfriend, while in her late 20's, she goes on blind dates to find a man to marry. Miki Tokioka was born in a province. She studied very hard and entered a prestigious university in Tokyo. She experienced difficult financial times, but she now works at an IT company. Due to a man, Hanako Haibara and Miki Tokioka meet each other.
The Pledge to Megumi
Production Design
A film depicting the story of Yokota Megumi who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977.
La mujer del espía
Production Design
Yusaku (Issey Takahashi) es el director de una compañía comercial en Kobe (Japón), y está casado con Satoko (Yu Aoi). En un viaje a Manchuria durante 1940, Yusaku descubre un terrible secreto nacional. En nombre de la justicia decide hacerlo público, lo que le convierte al instante en un enemigo público. Sin embargo, Satoko asegura creerle y jura que estará a su lado independientemente de las consecuencias.
Jigoku Shojo
Production Designer
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To The Ends of the Earth
Production Design
Yoko es una joven reportera japonesa cuya personalidad es puesta a prueba cuando viaja a Uzbekistán para grabar el último episodio de su serie de viajes alrededor del mundo.
The Scythian Lamb
Art Direction
Basada en un manga escrito por Tatsuhiko Yamagami, la historia se desarrolla en una antigua ciudad portuaria de Uobuka, donde 6 ex delincuentes fueron enviados por el gobierno, con la intención de volver a socializarlos. Aparte de los pocos que conocen el proyecto, la gente del pueblo en general no tiene idea de las identidades de los ex convictos.
Before we Vanish
Art Direction
Narumi y Shinji atraviesan una mala racha en su matrimonio. Un día Shinji desaparece y cuando vuelve está totalmente transformado. Al mismo tiempo, una familia aparece brutalmente asesinada y extraños fenómenos empiezan a producirse en la ciudad. El periodista Sakurai empezará a investigar el misterio. (FILMAFFINITY)
Kako: My Sullen Past
Art Direction
Kako (Fumi Nikaido) is a female high school student. She lives at a restaurant run by her family in Kitashinagawa, Tokyo. Unexpectedly, Kako's aunt, Mikiko (Kyoko Koizumi), suddenly appears. Kako thought her aunt died 18 years ago. Her whole family is embarrassed by Mikiko's appearance due to a past incident caused by Mikiko. Kako is also irritated when Mikiko lives in her room. They spend the summer together.
Sadako vs. Kayako
Production Design
Tras ver una perturbadora cinta de VHS, dos jóvenes creen ser víctimas de una fatal maldición. Por su parte, una adolescente se adentra en la siniestra casa abandonada que hay frente a su hogar, en busca de unos niños desaparecidos. Cuando estos dos incidentes se crucen, las mitologías de 'The Ring' y 'La maldición' se combinarán en un cóctel de j-horror elevado al cuadrado.
Creepy
Art Direction
Un policía retirado vuelve a investigar cuando un ex-colega le pide ayuda para resolver el caso de la desaparición de una familia, ocurrida 6 años antes. Mientras, el policía y su mujer se han trasladado a vivir a una nueva casa, donde tendrán de vecino a un extraño personaje.
The Mohican Comes Home
Production Design
Eikichi left his hometown in Hiroshima for Tokyo. He tried to find success with his music band, but failed. Several years later, Eikichi goes home to tell his father, Osamu, that his girlfriend is pregnant. His father curses him out, but he is also excited to have a grandchild. Osamu has a party to celebrate the news, but, at the party, he collapses and goes to the hospital. Eikichi struggles to make his father happy.
Viaje hacia la orilla
Set Decoration
Desaparecido en el mar, a Yusuke, marido de Mizuki, se le había dado por muerto durante 3 años. De repente, un día vuelve a casa y le pregunta a Mizuki si quiere ir de viaje con él. El trayecto consistirá en ir visitando a todas las personas que ayudaron a Yusuke en su viaje anterior, aquel en el que se le dio por muerto. Mientras viajan juntos, Mizuki siente en primera persona todo lo que Yusuke hizo en esos tres años.
Good Stripes
Art Direction
Midori Mantani and Masao Minamisawa are both 28-years-old. They have dated for 4 years, but their relationship seems to be just going through the motions. They think about breaking up. At that time, Midori becomes pregnant. Midori and Masao decide to marry. While preparing for their wedding, they become more familiar with each other's background. Midori Mantani grew up with parents who ran an iron factory in a provincial city that didn't offer much in terms of culture. Unlike Midori, Masao Minamisawa grew up in Tokyo and his family was wealthy. His father worked as a photographer and his mother was a doctor. He now works as a web designer. The couple begin to have a better understanding of each other.
La La La at Rock Bottom
Production Design
Shigeo is released from prison and immediately beaten up by some old associates, which results in him losing his memory. Kasumi, who just by chance happens to be the manager of a band, takes him in and discovers his talent for singing.
Fuku-chan of FukuFuku Flats
Art Direction
Fuku-chan is generous, light-hearted and a little chubby. When a woman from his past returns, his old fear of women is finally put to the test
Tamako in Moratorium
Art Direction
Tamako graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako doesn't help her father or tries to get a job. She spends her time just eating and sleeping throughout the four seasons of the year.
Seventh Code
Art Direction
Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tokyo only once. Akiko finally finds Matsunaga. However, he leaves her again, warning her not to trust strangers in a foreign country. She tries to follow him, but she is attacked by thugs and dumped on the outskirts of town.
The Drudgery Train
Art Direction
In this offbeat coming-of-age tale, a charming, rebellious high school dropout named Kanta befriends the kind, provincial Shoji. The two bring out the best in each other, each gaining confidence from their friendship - especially regarding pursuit of the opposite sex. The working class Kanta becomes a sort of unruly anti-hero, maintaining his pride, defiance, and self-assurance even as his prospects seem increasingly grim.
Tokio Blues (Norwegian Wood)
Production Design
Adaptación de la prestigiosa novela homónima de Murakami. La historia comienza cuando un hombre llamado Toru Watanabe escucha la canción de los Beatles "Norwegian Wood" mientras aterriza en el aeropuerto de Hamburgo, lo que le hace retroceder a su juventud y al turbulento Tokio de la década de los 60.
Forget Me Not
Production Design
A nostalgic human drama based on Dazai Osamu Prize winner Tsujiuchi Tomoki's novella. Set in a declining coal-mining town in 1950s Fukuoka, the story depicts a rambunctious but pure-hearted young boy in love with an older woman. Director Hirayama Hideyuki and writer Chong Wishing, both from Begging for Love (Ai o kou hito), join hands again to make this film. Michiyo (Koyuki) has left Tokyo for Fukuoka with her son Mamoru (Ikematsu Sosuke) after divorcing her husband. The story follows Mamoru's memories of his time spent with the notorious rebel Shinichi (Ishida Takuya), who stood up for him against bullies.
Vengeance Can Wait
Art Direction
Director Tominaga Masanori (Pandora's Box) brings Motoya Yukiko's offbeat play Ranbo to Taiki to the big screen in a juicy, neurotic tangle of love, hate and voyeurism. Hidenori (Asano Tadanobu) and Nanase (Minami) have lived together for ten years in a tense, platonic relationship. The wheels of change are set in motion when married couple Takao (Yamada Takayuki) and Azusa (Koike Eiko) move in next door. After Hidenori catches Nanase and Takao having an affair, he becomes obsessed with watching Nanase through a peephole, and planning his cruel revenge.
The Chef of South Polar
Art Direction
When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.
Grotesque
Production Design
Una joven pareja, Aki y Kazuo, son secuestrados cuando pasean por la calle por un sádico demente que los encierra en un sótano y los somete a degradantes torturas, degradación y toda clase de mutilaciones.
A Letter from Elsewhere
Production Design
Yoshinaga, a real-estate agent, has a young female customer one day. She asks him to take her to the apartment where she used to live. When he plays a videotape left in that cavant room which shows some signs of its ex-resident, Yoshinaga gets lost in another fantastic world. After a while, Yoshinaga and the girl come back to their respective daily lives... A pop, colorful, yet at times a heartaching road movie, which leads to elsewhere.
PASSION
Production Design
Una pareja está a punto de casarse. En plena fiesta, delante de todos los invitados, sale a la luz que el novio tuvo un affaire en el pasado. Esa noche no estuvieron juntos... En esta película, somos testigos de una historia de amor frívola y fugaz, protagonizada por hombres y mujeres de unos veinte años, que se desarrolla en una noche en Yokohama; o quizás se trate de un estudio metafísico del amor. ¿Qué aportarán sus conclusiones al final? ¿Serán sorprendentes o ridículas? Ópera prima de Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
El Clon vuelve a Casa
Art Direction
Kohei Takahara, un astronauta que muere en cumplimiento del deber, resucita legalmente como un clon: sin embargo, contrariamente a las expectativas de los científicos, vuelve a los recuerdos de su infancia cuando su hermano gemelo se ahogó y sacrificó su vida por Kohei. El clon de Kohei descubre el cuerpo de su antiguo yo creyendo erróneamente que es su gemelo fallecido. Reviviendo su trágico pasado, se pone en camino llevando su cadáver a la hermosa ciudad natal donde vivía con su madre ahora muerta.
Retratos del más allá
Production Design
Cabía suponer que para el fotógrafo Ben y su reciente esposa Jane, el nuevo encargo que aquél recibe -una lucrativa sesión fotográfica de modas en Tokio- sería una mezcla de luna de miel y trabajo. Cargados con tan exótica oportunidad profesional y las ilimitadas posibilidades de un nuevo matrimonio, Ben y Jane llegan al Japón. Pero mientras circulan por una carretera de montaña que conduce al Monte Fuji, su automóvil arrolla a una joven que estaba en medio de la carretera y que se había materializado de no se sabe dónde. Al recuperar la consciencia después del accidente, Ben y Jane son incapaces de hallar rastro alguno de la muchacha que Jane cree haber golpeado con el coche... Remake de una película tailandesa de mismo título de 2005.
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
Production Design
In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who lives with her brother and his wife. The offer comes from Nagayo, but Etsuko is attracted to his friend, Akashi.
Old Salmon
Production Design
The Vanished
Art Direction
A young reporter is covering the mysterious case of a child found dead with missing internal organs.
Noroi (La maldición)
Production Design
Masafumi Kobayashi es un reportero de lo sobrenatural. Su último documental nunca fue mostrado al publico por ser considerado demasiado perturbador para la televisión, ese famoso y ultrasecreto documental es Noroi, La maldición.
The Face of Jizo
Production Design
Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.
Aragami
Production Design
Dos samurai heridos de gravedad se refugian de una tormenta en un templo aislado, el hogar de un espadachín y una misteriosa joven. Un samurai se despierta para descubrir que no solo ha muerto su compañero, sino también que sus heridas se han curado milagrosamente. Descubre que el espadachín, un hombre conocido como el legendario Miyamoto Musashi, que ahora vive como el Aragami, un "dios de la batalla", le ha dado el poder de la inmortalidad.
Moonlight Whispers
Production Design
Satsuki and Takuya are high school students who meet at kendo practice, where they bash one another with wooden swords. They begin an awkward romance, but Takuya soon reveals a masochistic side to his desires. He has been stealing Satsuki's soiled clothing and secretly surveilling her while imagining her subjugation of him. Disgusted, Satsuki rejects him but he persists, and she discovers her own pleasure in manipulating and humiliating him.