Taiga Nakano

In the middle of a riverside park stands a single bench. One evening, a couple of childhood friends who hadn’t seen each other in a while meet up ...

Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother’s true intentions, Sakuya ventures into uncharted ...

When the brutal Boshin War breaks out in Japan, a group of inmates on death row unite to defend a fortress against the Imperial army.

Shun Fujishiro is a psychiatrist and works at a university hospital in Tokyo. He is engaged to Yayoi Sakamoto. One day in April, when he is about ...

Sanae, who went to prison after failing to kill her ex-boyfriend six years ago, meets Kenta, a forest ranger, and gets married. Sanae and ...

Tsuchiya, who lives with his single mother in Osaka, does not get serious work once he graduates from high school, but rather devotes himself to ...

26 years old Hanako is on the verge of directing her first-ever feature film, achieving her childhood dream. Although she’s being hindered by an ...

Three men, born in 1987, are from the yutori (“relaxed”) generation, and they continue their attempts at finding love, friendship, ...

Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.

Yuta lives in an orphanage while waiting for her mother to pick her up. One day, Yuta, who happened to know his mother’s whereabouts, ...

Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay ...

Having failed to get into graduate school, with no girlfriend, no money, and no prospects of success with his band, Tsurugi’s life has ...

Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find ...

A man has a baby, runs away, then comes back, but he can’t just show up, apologize, and hope that makes himself a grown man.

Atsuhisa Yamada is an ordinary man, with a wife and a 5-year-old daughter. He is close to his childhood friend Takeda. One day, Atsuhisa Yamada ...

Kato, a scriptwriter, is in love with Miho—but he can never manage to muster up enough courage to make the relationship anything more than a ...

The school’s handball club is about to close down. Can social media bring it back to life? Masao Kiyota is a high school student living in ...

Taking place after the events of the TV series, Mitsuhashi and Ito face the new enemies.

Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to go get money from his disapproving ...

A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is ...

High school boy Machida is a loner who is not particularly good at his studies or extracurricular activities. He does seem to have his heart in ...

To protect his family from a mysterious being, a man joins forces with a journalist and an exorcist – but they come to learn what they are ...

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

The Akazas are a blue-collar family living in a working-class neighborhood of Tokyo. Older brother Inosuke is a carpenter who works for his ...

Daisuke Yuge works as a tour guide in Oahu, Hawaii and also studies astronomy. He meets Rui Fujishima at a cafe and falls in love with her at ...

A man is found washed up on a beach in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, suffering from amnesia and speaking in broken Indonesian and Japanese.

A struggling, unemployed musician living with his girlfriend looks to improve his life after he discovers how she’s been paying the rent.

Three friends who will soon graduate from high school decide to take one last trip together.

While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who has been declared missing is used to design a ...

A classmate from Ushijima’s middle school days, Takemoto, shows up. He was a kind man, but now is jobless and without a home. Adrift and ...