Motomi Makiguchi

Shunsaku was paralyzed from the neck down at the young age of 36 by a spinal injury suffered in a motorcycle accident. A blind woman named Hanae ...

Five short stories from five different directors set ten years in Japan’s future.

Utsumi and Seto’s daily routine is to spend their afterschool hours just jabbering with one another along a riverbed. Getting excited over ...

Nursing home “Yuyoso”. Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a ...

A doll maker and his daughter Erika live in a remote mountain villa. When some thugs break in and murder Erika and disfigure the old doll maker, ...

The Rinkaiji family, by all appearances, is a well-to-do Japanese family. The father, Nariyuki, works in an elite corporation, which gives his ...

A school bus driver’s life is irrevocably altered when his young son is kidnapped and murdered.

A member of the jieitai (“Self-Defense Force”; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in ...