For fans of Ryuichi Hiroki: what to watch, read & play next

A street musician funds his dreams through gay AV work while holding onto a relationship he can't quite name.

Ataru is tricked into thinking Lum wants to leave — a comedy of misunderstanding built around the fear of losing someone.

Adult friends revisit a cherry blossom hillside and the shared grief of something they couldn't change in youth.

A single mother's long-running 'friendship' with a younger man unravels when a teenage girl arrives and disrupts everything.

A popular boy moves in next door to a girl living alone, and proximity slowly dissolves into something more.

Eri lives alone in her late father's house, quietly navigating loneliness and an unexpected pull toward someone nearby.

Shigeru navigates a web of female friendships tangled with desire, self-interest, and an unresolved history with Kaori.

Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi drifts deeper into compensated dating, chasing an expensive ring in a city of indifferent older men.

A boy moves to Tokyo, lands in his aunt's women's bathhouse, and falls hard for the girl next door.

Sumika silently loves her best friend Ushio, who keeps falling for exactly the wrong people.

A rookie actor cast alongside a former classmate struggles to separate his real feelings from his on-screen performance.

A young animator's career rises fast — from debut director to social phenomenon — with costs success can't cover.

Seventeen-year-old Mineko's quiet village life upends when her father's absence pulls her toward Tokyo and independence.

After her father's death, Fuu locked away their photographs; returning to them means returning to him.

A poor girl at an elite school stands up to its most powerful clique and gets far more than she bargained for.

Shinichiro lives with Hiromi, the girl he loves — a frustrating arrangement where closeness is never quite enough.

A sun-drenched village in rural Japan where the summer cicadas never stop and trust quietly, fatally, erodes.

Hinamizawa's summer returns through a different character's eyes — the same events, a very different kind of horror.

The secrets behind Hinamizawa's recurring curse begin to surface as the characters push back against the cycle.

1956 Tokyo: an ex-cop turned private eye investigates a series of bizarre murders alongside a haunting personal case.

A government agent arrives in Hinamizawa to investigate a dam project and finds the village's stillness deeply unsettling.

A new boy moves to Hinamizawa and slowly realizes the warm, close-knit village is hiding something dangerous.

A midsummer festival ritual in Hinamizawa sets off a familiar cycle of paranoia, suspicion, and violence.

Keiichi becomes convinced that someone in his close friend group is capable of murder — and can't let the thought go.

Flash fiction portraits of strange, precise figures — a child under white cloth, a diplomat no one has seen — with dream logic.

After a family tragedy, Katie moves to her aunt's home in Shizuoka, Japan, feeling lost until she isn't.

Post-quake Tokyo in the near future, where a musician's obsession with a virtual idol raises questions about what's real.

A young Chinese man recovers from tuberculosis at a quiet Japanese seaside house — painting, swimming, growing still.

Five years after bullying a deaf classmate out of school, Shoya tries to make amends — a story about guilt and repair.

Haruhi, a poor girl at a wealthy school, repays an $80,000 debt by working for an all-male club — disguised as a boy.

A widower, his old friend, and a son lost in Tibet each try to reassemble themselves after cancer takes Nadia.

A narrator spends a year alone in a mountain valley, the prose measured and attentive to seasonal atmosphere.