Shinkoyaki and other croquettes in Asahikawa / 2016

First business trip away from Tokyo in a while,

孤独のグルメSeason4 真夏の博多・出張スペシャル / 2014

The Box / 2021

The Box is a hybrid documentary that explores the effects of solitary confinement through three people’s harrowing true stories – they’ve spent a combined nine years in isolation, and one of them co-directed this film.

The Before and After Lonely Castle in the Mirror / 2023

Special animation shown during a rescreening of the movie. Later included in the limited BD/DVD edition.

丑郡马宣赞 / 2015

Lonely Voices / 2018

An Atonal commissioned video work from acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Zhao Liang was shot on-site in Chernobyl, northern Ukraine. The work focuses on Maria - in her 50s when the nuclear disaster occurred in Chernobyl. As her village was within 30 kilometres of the restricted area, she and her neighbours were forbidden to live in their own homes and instead sent to far away places. Maria along with several sisters secretly returned to their village to live a self-sufficient life. When Liang met Maria, she was over eighty years old, and she was left alone in the village. The sisters who had secretly returned with her had died. He re-edited the contents of the interviews with the characters in Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl, and created a situation in which the inner echo of the elderly shows the deep pain and irreparable trauma to the human race caused by nuclear tragedy.

Death Flash / 1986

A cop, accused of accidental murder, goes after drug dealers who are holding his sister and her friend.

Ikala /

With minutes left before U.S. forces level a Mujahideen camp, a Sikh prisoner trapped in solitary confinement turns to his faith to make a daring escape.