Takenori Sento Filmography

Occupation:: Producer

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Lakeside Murder Case

Crew: Producer

Actors: Koji Yakusho, Hiroko Yakushima, Akira Emoto, Etsushi Toyokawa

2004
St. John's Wort

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Megumi Okina, Yoichiro Saito, Koji Ookura, Reiko Matsuo, Minoru

2004
Utsukushii Natsu Kirishima

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tasuku Emoto, Yoshio Harada, Tokie Hidari, Riho Makise, Junko Miyashita

2003
Mike Yokohama - A Forest With No Name

Crew: Producer

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Kyoka Suzuki, Nene Otsuka, Yoshio Harada, Masashi Yamamoto

Synopsis: Shinji Aoyama's Mike Yokohama - A Forest With No Name is a loose adaptation of the work of Mickey Spillane. Private detective Mike Yokohama (Masatoshi Nagase) is hired by a rich businessman to find his daughter who has joined a commune. Mike goes undercover and joins the secret group, where Read More

2002
Eureka

Crew: Producer

Actors: Koji Yakusho, Ken Mitsuishi

Synopsis: One of the leading voices in the new Japanese cinema, Shinji Aoyama directs this saga about memory, grief, and redemption. Shot in stark black and white, the film opens with the sudden and inexplicably bloody hijacking of a bus in rural Kyushu. The crazed gunman (Riju Go) shoots two passengers in Read More

5/4/01
Chloe

Crew: Producer

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Shinya Tsukamoto, Miyuki Matsuda, Shinji Aoyama

Synopsis: Veteran actor turned filmmaker Go Riju spins this love story about the beautiful and doomed. Chloe (Rie Tomosaka) meets Kotaro (Masatoshi Nagase) at an art show at a local mall and true to generic form, they fall in love at first sight. At their fashionable wedding attended by a host of Tokyo Read More

2001
Electric Dragon 80.000 V

Crew: Producer

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase

Synopsis: Following up on his exuberant Gojoe, which featured an ear-splitting soundtrack and a seizure-inducing editing style, veteran indie director Sogo Ishii spins this bizarre cyberpunk action flick about rock & roll and electricity. Ryuganji Morison (Tadanobu Asano) has two loves in his life Read More

2001
Mabudachi

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ken Mitsuishi

Synopsis: A boy is torn between his desire to please his father and his need to rebel against him in this drama from Japan. Sadatomo (Yamato Okitsu) is the son of Kobayashi (Mikio Shimizu), a strict and dictatorial middle school teacher who believes all people fall into one of three categories: normal Read More

2001
Unloved

Crew: Producer

Actors: Yuko Moriguchi, Toru Nakamura, Shunsuke Matsuoka

Synopsis: Former screenwriter for Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kunitoshi Manda makes his directorial debut with this understated drama about a woman who is defiantly happy where she is in life. A skilled employee at the local city hall, Mitsuko (Yuko Moriguchi) refuses to take the civil service exam that would advance Read More

2001
H Story

Crew: Producer

Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Ko Machida, Nobuhiro Suwa, Caroline Champetier

Synopsis: Following up on his masterful dissection of a relationship gone awry in M/Other, Nobuhiro Suwa directs this postmodern adaptation of Alain Renais' classic Hiroshima, Mon Amour. Suwa plays himself as a director who is seeking to remake the 1959 masterwork and who has cast French actress Beatrice Read More

2001
Desert Moon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hiroshi Mikami, Isao Natsuyagi

Synopsis: Following up on his epic masterpiece Eureka, director Shinji Aoyama creates this mediation on spiritual and economic malaise in contemporary Japanese society. Nagai (Hiroshi Mikami) is an American-educated businessman desperately trying to keep his cutting edge software company afloat amid Read More

2001
Boy's Choir

Crew: Producer

Actors: Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryoko Takizawa, Ken Mitsuishi

Synopsis: Former assistant director to Sogo Ishii, Akira Ogata makes his debut with this complex coming of age drama about a pair of orphans obsessed with choir singing. Set during the political tumult of the 1970s, the film focuses on Michio (Atsushi Ito), a stuttering, socially-inept 15-year-old. Michio's Read More

2000
Hotaru

Crew: Producer

Actors: Toshiya Nagasawa, Miyako Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Kitami, Ken Mitsuishi

Synopsis: Following up on her Camera d'Or-winning feature-film debut Suzaku and her understated documentary Somaudo Monogatari, Naomi Kawase spins this lyrical work about two troubled souls plagued by demons of their past. The film opens with Ayako (Yuko Nakamura) storming out of her tumble-down house after Read More

2000
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Daisuke Ryu, Jun Kunimura

Synopsis: Maverick Japanese director Sogo Ishii takes an unexpectedly conventional approach in this screen adaptation of a well-known Japanese folk legend of the 12th century. In the long-standing battle of the Genji and Heiki clans, the Heiki have emerged triumphant, but they find they have a new adversary Read More

2000
M/Other

Crew: Producer

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
Buta No Mukui

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Buta No Mukui (The Pig's Retribution), a film about spiritual salvation in a wild and crazy world, follows a young man's journey to his birthplace on the island of Majajima in Okinawa where he plans to bury the bones of his father, who died at sea twelve years earlier. Shokichi (Ozawa Yukiyoshi) Read More

1999
Shikoku

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Yui Natsukawa, Michitaka Tsutsui, Chiaki Kuriyama, Kie Negishi, Ren Osugi

Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller from Japan, Hinako (Yui Natsukawa) is a young woman with a successful career as a fashion designer who pays a visit to the village on the island of Shikoku where she grew up. Hinako learns that her best friend from childhood, Sayori (Chiaki Kuriyama), the daughter of Read More

1999
Suzaku

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Naomi Kawase makes her feature debut with the understated family drama set in the mountains of rural Nara prefecture. The film centers on the Tahara family who eke out a living -- much like their ancestors -- from the local ancient cedar forests. Living in a Read More

1997
2/Duo

Crew: Producer

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
Elephant Song

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This charming Japanese drama follows the exploits of a Kanako, a dippy young waitress, who promised her old friend "Chestnut Uncle" that when he died, she would have him buried rather than cremated so his body could give something back to the earth from whence he came. Soon after his death, Kanako Read More

1995
Kono Mado Wa Kimi No Mono

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: High-school student Taro (Hideo Sakai) has had the bad luck to break a leg just before his summer vacation can begin. He lives in a part of northeastern Japan that is very rural. Most of the time, he recuperates at home in his room. The window to his room is immediately adjacent to the window of Read More

1994