Directing

Seitaro Kai

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Known For

True MothersTrue Mothers · 2020
True Mothers
★ 7.42020
MovieDrama
After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child. Six years after adopting a boy they named Asato, Satoko has quit her job to concentrate fully on her husband and son. The family lives a peaceful existence until the arrival of a stranger.
The World of KanakoThe World of Kanako · 2014
The World of Kanako
★ 6.42014
MovieMysteryCrime
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father can not even imagine.
Our DeparturesOur Departures · 2018
Our Departures
★ 6.82018
MovieDramaFamily
Akira is widowed and left with a pre-teen stepson. Travelling with him to her late husband's hometown, she meets her odd father-in-law and yet decides to make a go of living and working there. She attends training and joins the railway company where her father-in-law works and her late man dreamt of ending up as a child.
The Kirishima ThingThe Kirishima Thing · 2012
The Kirishima Thing
★ 6.92012
MovieDrama
A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how his disappearance affects every person in school.
Kiba: The Fangs of FictionKiba: The Fangs of Fiction · 2021
Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
★ 7.42021
MovieDrama
The president of the Kunpusha publishing giant suddenly dies, triggering an internal power struggle over his successor. Trinity magazine editor Hayami is forced to contend with the magazine's possible termination by senior manager Tomatsu. Hayami grapples with publishing world ruffians in a struggle for the magazine's very existence.
Yakushima's IllusionYakushima's Illusion · 2025
Yakushima's Illusion
★ 7.62025
MovieDrama
Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric heart transplants is sent to Japan where organ donation remains taboo. As she fights to save a young boy, her partner Jin, a photographer from Yakushima, suddenly vanishes.
Pale MoonPale Moon · 2014
Pale Moon
★ 6.42014
MovieCrimeDrama
Wakaba Bank contract employee Rika meets university student Kota at a client's home. Unknown to her husband Masafumi, she engages in secret rendezvous with Kota, and begins to embezzle money from her clients' accounts to buy expensive cosmetics and pay off Kota's debt.
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? · 2026
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?
★ 7.22026
MovieDramaWar
Vietnam veteran Allen Nelson returns with severe PTSD, winding up on the streets before crossing paths with Dr. Daniels of the Veterans Affairs who sets about trying to help him.

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If BlessedIf Blessed · 2010
If Blessed
2010
MovieRomanceDrama
Poet Okachimachi Kaito makes his directing debut. Featuring lead actress Ono Machiko, who starred in The Mourning Forest (Mogari no Mori) and is also a regular in director Kawase Naomi's other works, this film portrays the pure love between a prisoner sentenced to death and the fiance of the man he killed, and was nominated to be in the section "Japanese Eyes" in the Tokyo International Film Festival. Jun (Kubota Masashi) receives the death penalty for a botched robbery that turned into murder and while in prison, he is visited by Kaoru (Ono), a Christian and the fiance of the man he killed. However, when her fiance was killed, he was secretly with another woman. Jun and Kaoru soon become attracted to one another and, using a bible, they start to communicate in secret.

Assistant Director

DumbeastDumbeast · 2009
Dumbeast
★ 7.52009
MovieComedy
How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 Kunio Kishida-winning stage play Donju (a.k.a. Dumb Animal) to the big screen in all its wacky tragicomedic glory. The one and only Asano Tadanobu sports a seriously nerdy bowl haircut to play the leading role of simple-minded novelist Dekogawa who has mysteriously disappeared. Dekogawa wrote an autobiography about his youth that reveals not only his past, but also some of his childhood friends’ best-forgotten secrets. In order to keep the skeletons in the closet, these buddies of yesteryear try to silence him permanently. But no matter how hard they try to kill Dekogawa, he just keeps coming back – because he’s simply too thickheaded to die!

Assistant Director