Tomoko Naraoka

Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he grows and the mushrooms he picks in the hills. His ...

Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a “benriya” – a general problem solver for hire. His assistant is ...

A heartwarming tale about the turning point in the life of an elite business man in his fifties and a local train that has been running since ...

Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan’s department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom ...

Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing.

Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) ...

A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad ...

Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.

Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible Hama-chan. The ...

An auto repairman’s daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man ...

During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his ...

Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave ...

TV adaptation of the novel “Twenty-Four Eyes”, combining animation with a few live-action scenes.

A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening ...