Shota Sometani Movies

"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy's prison in Matsumoto City, Nagano...

Two brothers start working as benshi narrators of silent films in a cinema in the early 20th century. This premise is the jumping-off point for an...

After Japan's defeat in WWII, "Pandora no hako" follows a young man named Risuke who has contracted tuberculosis. He travels to the countryside to a...

Akito has been the ears and voice of his mother, Reiko, since he was a child. Reiko was born deaf and has long dreamed that her son would become a...

A documentary showcasing the making of Sion Sono's Himizu

Atsuo Kashiwagi, an enthusiastic member of the village council, decides to invent a mysterious beast to make his village famous. Against all...

A group of saints living together in a room in Tokyo's tachikawa apartment, the awakened man Buddha and the son of god Jesus, form an effort to make...

A mysterious old woman appears before Setsu, who has recently lost her only child in a tragic accident. She says she can bring Setsu's son, Daio back...

Twenty-five-year-old Momo has friends. Her parents live some distance away, but they sometimes get together to dine out. She dates an acceptable guy,...

Mortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is also...

Midori is in her late 30's and is a cutout picture artist. She has anxiety about her future. Takano is a 25-year-old bureaucrat at the Ministry of...

Documentary detailing the making and shooting of the 25th Anniversary book. There are talk sessions with four actors who have spent a lot of time...

MARU runs around Tokyo.MARU hears from his fellow messenger HIDE that he might be leaving Tokyo.

Wpc. 15th anniversary short movie

A man and a woman share the same time and same space. One day in the morning, they go their separate ways. The woman meets her old friend, but she...

When Satoru (Shota Sometani) was 5-years-old, he became an orphan due to a bus accident. A ventriloquist doll was at the scene of the accident....

Yukio Kasai (Sometani Shota) is running through the mountains to escape something, when suddenly he is accidentally hit and knocked unconscious. The...