Makio Kōdai is a shy 35-year-old woman. She works as a novelist. One day, her sibling and her sibling’s married partner die in a car accident. Makio Kōdai attends their…
Yukio Haruyama (Riku Ohnishi) is an elementary school student. He has an uncle (Ryuhei Matsuda) that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle…
Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his cat Tama. Daikichi was born and raised on the small…
Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged…
Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada’s coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the…
Fukuura Koharu works at a child welfare office and plunges into despair overnight. Then she meets Daigo, a private-practice doctor raising his 8-year-old daughter on his own. She resolves to…
