Projects in Development

Pen and Camera directed by Takashi Nishihara                             Japan

Logline: A female writer who has been disappointed with journalism realizes contradiction of Japanese social structure while investigating for a sexual assault case, and her articles start impacting the politics and the society.

Genre: social drama

Language: Japanese

Toki directed by Marina Tsukada                                                      Japan

Logline: As an ordinary junior high school girl grows up over next 10 years surrounded by her friends and family, she experiences love, relationship, work, and death and learns that life is beautiful.

Genre: coming of age

Language: Japanese

After Autumn directed by Sheron Dayoc                                       Philippines – Japan – Luxembourg

Logline: 2044. Suicide rate in Japan has multiplied. Japanese widower Makoto lives in isolation after the death of his wife. His daily life has been reduced to take care of a plant. Everything changes when Filipino Laila appears to his doorstep. Happy microchip user Laila alters the way Makoto lives, leading him to confront secrets he's been avoiding.

Genre: arthouse sci-fi drama

Language: Japanese, Tagalog

Quantum Suicide directed by Mikhail Red                                    Philippines - Japan

Logline: A university student working as a drug courier in Tokyo discovers a mysterious pill that allows him to escape his own reality by jumping to parallel universes.

Genre: sci-fi action thriller

Language: English

Harakiri Films is an independent feature film production company based in Osaka, Japan. It focuses on low budget international co-production and local original films targeting theatrical distribution and film festivals. It was founded by Taro Imai in 2015 in order to reincarnate the filmmaking scene in Osaka. For Harakiri Films, development of good stories (entrance) and theatrical distribution (exit) for feature films are 2 important keys as we are storytellers to deliver good stories to our audience. By paying attention to the entrance and the exit, we want to continue making profitable low budget films in Osaka. As the name of Harakiri Films resembles, we are committed filmmakers. We believe in that screenwriting, acting, and directing are 3 fundamental factors in filmmaking. For commercial films, famous actors and adapted scripts from popular novels or cartoons are more important, but we want to make filmmaking very simple like Zen by simply focusing on those 3 fundamental factors. Its recent feature film, ERIKO, PRETENDED was released theatrically in Japan and in Thailand in 2018 and became a smash hit as the micro budget independent film. In 2018, the company became a limited liability company in Japan as Harakiri Films LLC.

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Osaka 554-0013 JAPAN
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producer: Taro Imai