A lonely young man moves in a 50-year-old apartment building. When he meets the cheerful residents, he finds himself surrounded by small happiness.
Riverside Mukolitta
Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns to restart his life with his old boxing buddies....
One Last Bloom
A 100-year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping him alive suddenly malfunction, or was he murdered? A...
The Women in the Lakes
Keiko Tsuruoka’s film is at once traditional and contemporary: it gently mixes present-day gender and sexuality politics with the old-fashioned...
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
With all the unrest and uncertainty in the world today, now feels as good a time as any for a movie portraying good will and love between people from...
The Prisoner of Sakura
Three men are possessed by the spirits of ancient samurai determined to build their master's castle, even if they must use cardboard.
Raise the Castle!
Japan and Iran are not in close relationship. More than 4 centuries ago, however, Persian carpets were used in the festival of Takayama, a historic...
The Wind Carpet
From a young age, Natsuki knew she was a girl despite her sex assigned at birth. Against the backdrop of conservative Japanese society, this poignant...
High Heels Revolution!
