Ataru Oikawa
September 5, 1957 · 69 years old
Ataru Oikawa is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. While working as an editor at Magazine House, he wrote screenplays, and made his debut as a screenwriter with his original scenario DOOR. Later, he quit Magazine House and became a film director.
Known For
7 titles
Tomie
A traumatized young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from.
Apartment 1303
A modern ghost story which turns a love hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror.
When They Cry
Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However when he starts to become suspicious that Rena, Mion and the oth...
Tomie: Beginning
When a beautiful young girl transfers to a new high school, the students become possessed and soon realize that behind this beauty is an unexplainable evil.
Tomie: Revenge
A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
Shrill Cries: Reshuffle
A young girl's troubles bring fear and madness to her entire village.
Door
After several strangely threatening calls from a local salesman, a homemaker becomes increasingly afraid to answer her apartment door.