Aju Makita
11 titles
Filmography
11 results

Child of Kamiari Month
(2021)A year after losing her mother, a young girl learns that she must journey across Japan to the annual gathering of gods in the sacred land of Izumo.

To Me, the One Who Loved You
(2022)Koyomi Hidaka is a boy in elementary school who lives with his father after his parents' divorce. One day, he meets a girl named Shiori Sato at his father's workplace. The two of them begin to fall in love, but then they learn that their parents are going to marry each other, so they decide to run away to a parallel world in which they aren't destined to become brother and sister.

Pure Japanese
(2022)Tateishi is devoted to Japanese culture. He is in charge of sound at the ninja show at the theme park, but he keeps daily training with a bamboo sword at the shrine.One night, at the bar he is forced to take a test by local yakuza. The kit called "Pure Japanese" that measures the purity of being Japanese. Tateishi refuses to take it there, but when he uses the kit at home, the result shows 100%...

Happiness
(2024)Super-cute videos of puppies set to relaxing solo piano and acoustic guitar.

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
Two inseparable friends move to Kyoto to chase their dreams of becoming maiko, but decide to pursue different passions while living under the same roof.

True Mothers
(2020)The orderly existence of a family with an adopted 6-year-old is shattered by the arrival of a woman claiming to be the child’s biological mother.

If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student
A widower begins to find hope again when a little girl appears, claiming to be the reincarnation of his wife who died a decade before.

Mr. Mikami's Classroom
Mikami joins Japan’s elite bureaucracy in the Ministry of Education hoping to strengthen critical thinking skills among students, but soon learns that his ministry is more interested in the goals of self-preservation. When Mikami gets "exiled" to a private high school on a ministry program, he represents both the bureaucrats who helped create the system and the teachers suffering from it. So Mikami leads a group of high school seniors to battle power and reform the education system.

House of Ninjas
Years after retiring from their formidable ninja lives, a dysfunctional family must return to shadowy missions to counteract a string of looming threats.

The Third Murder
(2017)Before winning the Palm D’Or with Shoplifters, Hirokazu Koreeda directed this crime thriller filled with nuance and complexity. Defying genre conventions, its whodunit aspect quickly makes room for a deeper exploration of truth, memory and the power of stories that we tell ourselves and others.

In Love and Deep Water
(2023)Romance, mystery and mayhem unfold aboard a luxury liner heading for the Aegean Sea, when a butler and a passenger try to solve a baffling murder.