The best Eiko Otani’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Eiko Otani’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Eiko Otani.
Sleeping Forest
6.5/10
A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ballet company. The Takayanagi Ballet Company insists that the incident is a self defense case, but after an investigation there's doubts in that claim. Then, the director of the Takayanagi Ballet Company is poisoned to death. Are the cases related?
Fish Story
7.5/10
A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" based on a sentence from a badly translated novel by a quack translator. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together. Thirty-seven years go by, and the song strikes a comet and saves the Earth from total destruction.
Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto
5.9/10
The story is about a group of university students who inevitably gets involved in playing a game of "Horumo" - a combat match where each person manipulates 100 spirits (referred to as "oni") to fight the opponent. Akira Abe, a freshman at Kyoto University student falls for his classmate Kyoko, and soon ends up at a mysterious club called “Kyoto University Azure Dragon” which turns out to be one of the Horumo teams, playing the mysterious (and somewhat absurd) game which started over 1,000 years ago in the Heian period.The heat rises as you see the 2,000 CGI created spirits wage fierce battles against the backdrop of breathtaking beautiful city of Kyoto. Let the battle begin!
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A local government worker with a registrar section, Motomiya witnesses a man burying a black bag while he enjoys his hobby, bird-watching, in a mountain. Later on, a woman who visits the office to have her marriage registered rides on the car of the guy. Motomiya starts keeping an eye on the woman's daily life with his gradually grown bursting imagination about the incident.
