Ataru Oikawa

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Ataru Oikawa

Born September 5, 1957 · Tokyo, Japan (age 69)

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.

Known For

DoorDoor · 1988
Door
★ 6.11988
MovieHorrorMystery
Yasuko, a housewife, 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 hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's chained front door. He leaves, but the next day, her nightmare starts.
TomieTomie · 1998
Tomie
★ 5.41998
MovieHorrorMystery
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: BeginningTomie: Beginning · 2005
Tomie: Beginning
★ 5.62005
MovieHorror
Within days after the mysterious new student Kawakami 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.
Apartment 1303Apartment 1303 · 2007
Apartment 1303
★ 4.82007
MovieHorror
While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her older sister, Mariko, decides to investigate the mysterious death of her sister.
Shrill Cries of SummerShrill Cries of Summer · 2008
Shrill Cries of Summer
★ 5.42008
MovieDramaHorror
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.
MenottoMenotto · 2005
Menotto
★ 3.72005
MovieDrama
Lovers' KissLovers' Kiss · 2003
Lovers' Kiss
★ 0.82003
MovieRomance
In Kamakura, 12th grade Rikako falls in love with Tomoaki Fujii, rumoured to be the school Don Juan and having impregnated a girl. This doesn't bother Rikako one bit, as she too sleeps around.
Kissho TennyoKissho Tennyo · 2007
Kissho Tennyo
★ 6.02007
MovieFantasy
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.

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Shibuya Night WarsShibuya Night Wars · 1998
Shibuya Night Wars
★ 10.01998
MovieDrama
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...

Director

Gang 2Gang 2 · 2001
Gang 2
2001
Movie
Odaiba, on the Tokyo Bay waterfront. Now a major Tokyo tourist attraction, lined with a giant Ferris wheel, broadcasting stations and massive shopping centres. In Odaiba, a series of disappearances involving young women had been occurring. Meanwhile, just as the Odaiba Boys’ Gang—who had grown complacent following a lull in turf wars between rival gangs—were becoming a little too complacent, news arrived that Riku of the Kisarazu Mad Dogs had been released from prison. Revenge against Nao! And he’s brought along the Tsuchigumo siblings—the ultimate reinforcements. Around the same time, the series of women’s disappearances began to take a sudden turn. Lurking behind the scenes was the smouldering scent of a turf war between the Horigome-gumi and the Tanabe-gumi. And what is the true identity of Nao, the woman who holds the key to the disappearances!? Then one day, Riku, the Tsuchigumo Siblings and the others encountered Shu, Zaza, Jiji and Mazuru…

Director