Makiko Watanabe Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Cinematographer, Screenwriter, Second Assistant Camera

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Zebraman

Actors: Sho Aikawa, Kyoka Suzuki, Teruyoshi Uchimura, Yui Ichikawa

Synopsis: A nebbish father and schoolteacher finds the courage to face both his personal issues and a horde of invading aliens after assuming the guise of an unpopular television superhero in maverick Japanese director Takashi Miike's warmhearted comedy. Nice guy Shinichi (Sho Aikawa) just can't seem to Read More

8/17/07
The Mourning Forest

Actors: Shigeki Uda, Machiko Ono, Makiko Watanabe, Kanako Masuda, Yoichiro Saito

Synopsis: Two people dealing with loss come together in this drama from Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. Machiko (Machiko Ono) is a woman who is still recovering emotionally from the death of her young son when she takes a job at a nursing home, where she helps care for the elderly and ailing residents. One Read More

2007
The Dark Corners of the Shelves

Actors: Ren Osugi, Ryoko Uchida, Makiko Watanabe, Hideo Sakaki

Synopsis: The echoes of a broken marriage return to haunt its survivors in The Dark Corners of the Shelves, Hajime Kadoi's sensitive observational portrait of lives in disarray. Long ago, Yoko, the wife of toy store proprietor Yasuo and the mother of young Tsuyoshi, left her family to pursue a relationship Read More

2007
The Rebirth

Actors: Masahiro Kobayashi, Makiko Watanabe

Synopsis: The mother of a killer forms a close bond with the father of her child's murdered classmate in director Masahiro Kobayashi's emotionally muted drama. A Tokyo schoolgirl has stabbed one of her classmates to death. As the police question the killer's mother Noriko (Makiko Watanabe) and the victim's Read More

2007
Enough

Crew: Second Assistant Camera

Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Bill Campbell, Juliette Lewis, Dan Futterman, Fred Ward, Tessa Allen, Noah Wyle

Synopsis: A Cinderella story turns into a nightmare when a former waitress' perfect marriage gives way to adultery and physical abuse in this combination of domestic drama and revenge thriller. Motherless young woman Slim (Jennifer Lopez) works in a San Francisco diner with her best friend, Ginny (Juliette Lewis Read More

5/24/02
Novocaine

Crew: Second Assistant Camera

Actors: Steve Martin, Helena Bonham Carter, Laura Dern, Scott Caan

Synopsis: In this darkly comic film noir from writer/director David Atkins, Steve Martin revisits dentistry -- an occupation he'd explored 15 years prior, in the camp musical Little Shop of Horrors. Novocaine casts Martin as a much more mild-mannered D.D.S., Dr. Frank Sangster. Engaged to a prim and Read More

11/16/01
M/Other

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tomokazu Miura, Makiko Watanabe, Ryudai Tatkahashi

Synopsis: The second film by Nobuhiro Suwa further explores the improvisational style that he developed in his highly praised debut, 2/Duo (1997). Starting from a three-page treatment, Suwa worked with actors Makiko Watanabe and Tomokazu Miura to fill out the plot and shade in the subtleties of their Read More

1999
Isola: Persona 13

Actors: Yu Kurosawa, Yoshino Kimura

Synopsis: A psychic and a young girl with multiple personality disorder find their paths crossing in this adaptation of Yusuke Kishi's novel. Isola: Persona 13 is set before the backdrop of the 1995 Kobe earthquake and stars Yoshino Kimura as Yukari, a mind reader who encounters Chihiro, a girl who believes Read More

1999
2/Duo

Actors: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Eri Yu

Synopsis: In preparing for this film, director Nobuhiro Suwa wrote an detailed script and then threw it away at the last moment. Instead, in a manner reminscient of Mike Leigh and John Cassavetes, he worked intensively with the actors to develop their characters and allowed the script to develop from Read More

1997
Gonin

Synopsis: Get Carter meets Heidegger in this slick, two-fisted gangster epic brimming with furtive sex and shocking violence. The film centers on five poster-boys of Japan's post-bubble economic malaise: Bandai (Koichi Sato), the owner of a once popular nightclub who's up to his fashionable lapels in debt Read More

1995
Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself

Crew: Cinematographer

1995