Akaneiro ni yakareru

IMDB: 6.6/10

Ryoko has not had fortune smile upon her recently. She is attractive, but lost her husband in a traffic accident seven years ago. She received no consolation for that or how she has to take care of a son and a father-in-law. She r...

Ah, kôya (AKA: Wilderness: Part One)

IMDB: 7.2/10

The year is 2021 and years of mismanagement have left Japan a broken society riddled with poverty and underemployment. Kenji is visibly disabled and has an inferiority complex. Shinji is released from prison and has time in his ha...

Hatachi no Soru (AKA: 20-Year-Old Soul)

IMDB: 6.6/10

Taigi Asano plays the trombone for the Funabashi High School Brass Band. He has a bright, kind, and honest personality. He also gets along well with the other brass band members. He enjoys his time with the band and the influence ...

Nijû seikatsu (AKA: Double Life)

IMDB: 5.9/10

As an adaptation of a Koike Mariko novel, which was inspired by the artwork True Stories by artist Sophie Calle, the film follows philosophy graduate Tamaki who, in turn, follows a man in her neighbourhood in the name of 'philosop...

Tonbi

IMDB: 6.4/10

Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed great at the time, but his life totally changed after his wife died in accident....

Strange Brew

IMDB: 0.0/10

Kazokuiro (AKA: Our Departures)

IMDB: 7.0/10

Akira is widowed and left with a pre-teen stepson. Travelling with him to her late husband's hometown, she meets her odd father-in-law and yet decides to make a go of living and working there. She attends training and joins the ra...

Asa ga kuru (AKA: True Mothers)

IMDB: 7.0/10

A woman with an adopted child is contacted unexpectedly by the child's birth mother.