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In the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII.

The eldest daughter, Masami, who ran away from home three years ago and hadn’t heard from her father and sister who run the ramen shop ...

Kazuo Kudo returns to his hometown of Hakodate with his wife because of his autonomic ataxia. Kazuo, who is not able to work and has to attend ...

After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a ...

Nao, who disagrees with her boyfriend often and tends to skip class, gets offered by her father, Hirokazu, to join Aya, who is about to be his ...

In March, 2017, at a small town, six boys and girls are selected through auditions. They work hard to prepare for a play, but the play is ...

The story of Henri Mitowa, a 93-year old Japanese monk, who wants to make a movie based on his own life.

Onodera Yuriko sets off for Sweden where her husband, Major General Onodera Makoto, is stationed as a military attache in Stockholm during World ...

Ando can’t accept this his daughter Kana committed suicide. Kana fell from the ledge of a school building and died. Ando attempts to find ...

Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to achieve ...

In suburban Tokyo in 1945, years of war and concentrated air raids by US forces have left the city in tatters and the population poor, tired, and ...

Shiori’s blog attracts the attention of Ayumi, a timid 13-year-old girl. Ayumi’s growing infatuation takes an unforeseen turn when ...

Teenager Kazuki Miyaichi has always felt unloved by her mother due the circumstances surrounding her birth. Because she harbors anxiety and ...

Two swim-team members, a hairless boy and a hirsute girl, discover the pangs and tangles of first love.

Physician Kohei Taguchi and Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare investigator Shiratori soon become involved in major reforms to the death ...

In a remote area of Hokkaido, two lonely high school students meet and connect through a shared love of music.

On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can ...

Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that ...

Kitaro is a half human, half creature who keeps an eye on the human society to save them from the evil attacks from another world. He finds that ...

Tsutsui, an office worker, marries Hitomi, who has a son from a previous marriage. However, one day, he realizes that something is missing in the ...

When a new, smart and sweet Tokyo girl, Rumiko, starts at a rural elementary school, Akira finds himself smitten, like every other male pupil. ...

Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort ...

One morning, Haruki comes to school wearing goggles. His classmates make fun of him as usual, but the goggles are meant to hide the bruises from ...

A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is ...

Three tales that center around sex and citizens of Tokyo: A repressed woman embraces her sexuality, (“Birthday”), an unexpected ...

During Muraishi’s time in prison for fraud, he recalls his past and learns a power to penetrate and cure others. Upon release, he goes to ...

A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo.

Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share a past in several senses. It was Ryosuke who ...

Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually ...