Movies by Kaito Yoshimura

Mori, The Artist's Habitat
In 1974, Morikazu is 94 years old and his wife Hideko is 76 years old. They live at a house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The garden at their home is full of trees, plants and insects. Morikazu paints pictures of the creatures in his garden and also observes them. This has been his daily routine for more than 30 years. Morikazu and Hideko entertain visitors every day including a photographer and the couple living next door.

Sweet-Smelling Movie: Be a Light to the World
A coming-of-age story about a high-school girl who wants to use magic, featuring the 11-member experimental band Vampillia

Gray Wall Gear
The stage of this work is Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo in the early Heisei period. Immediately after the bubble burst gangster countermeasures law, there were gangsters who defended the last territory and young people who freely controlled the city. The youth conflict escalated day by day and became a force that surpassed the yakuza, and the runaways were sent to juvenile prisons one after another, where exclusive rules awaited.

Love and Other Cults
Ai's mother sends her to live with a cult commune, where she remains for seven years. After the cult is broken up by the police, Ai struggles to fit in with society.

Midnight Swan
Nagisa is transgender. She grew up in Hiroshima as a man, but now lives in Shinjuku, Tokyo as a woman. Due to an incident, she begins to live with middle school student Ichika, who is a distant relative. Ichika has been neglected by her mother Saori. From living in solitude by herself, to now living with Ichika, Nagisa develops maternal instincts for the first time.

Mio on the Shore
Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.

Black Art Collection -Testimony-
Ishino Teiichiro (Tanihara Shosuke) married his wife Sachiko (Nishida Naomi) and took over her family’s clinic in Kanazawa. Although he is a respected doctor and seems to have a happy family life with Sachiko and their two children

God Seeks in Return
A heartwarming, yet bittersweet love story between a man seeking something in return and a woman who repays kindness with betrayal.

Far Away, Further Away
A marriage is weaker without something in common. Sayoko (SHINDO Manami) is a seemingly carefree woman but she hides doubts about her marriage behind her cheerful demeanour. After five years of being in Tokyo, it is apparent that she has little in common with her husband and so she begins scoping out apartments which is how she meets Yohei (YOSHIMURA Kaito), a real estate agent who is nursing a broken heart. As they tour properties, Sayoko's girlish charms work their magic on the downhearted man and she convinces him to look for the wife wh...

またここか
This film is set at a gas station service station. While the manager, Chikasugi (Yoshimura Kaijin), and a part-time worker, Takarai (ozono Mana), are having an incomprehensible conversation, a novelist, Nemori (Okabe Takashi), comes to visit, accompanied by a nurse, Shimeno (Kinoshita Akari). Nemori tells Chikasugi that he and Chikasugi are half-brothers, and asks Chikasugi to sue the hospital over "rumors of medical mistakes" concerning his father, who is hospitalized in a vegetative state.

Extraneous Matter Complete Edition
Compilation of the four short films in the Extraneous Matter series.

The Pretenders
It depicts two high school girls trying to change the atmosphere of the world with their ideas by setting up a camera in the town and transmitting the footage via SNS.

DEEP 124 IMPACT
The DEEP 124 IMPACT takes place on March 1, 2025, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. This mixed martial arts event features fighters like Ryuya Fukuda, Yuto Uemura, Yuki Narita, and Kota Shirawaka in a Featherweight Grand Prix opening round. Competitors battle across multiple bouts, including a main event between Yuki Motoya and Yutaro Muramoto. The night promises intense MMA action.