Yuji Nakae

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 ...

Taiko drummer, Hisakatsu Yokoyama, and fellow evacuees of Futaba, Fukushima fight to keep their beloved “Futaba Bon-Uta” alive after their ...

Yuriko (Yuki Shibamoto) is tired of her relationship with a married man. She leaves Tokyo and goes back to her hometown of Yugafu, which is ...

Kanako joins a high school where she is reunited with her childhood friend, Eijun. Following the idea of Seiryo, Kanako’s elder brother, ...

Shirayuri Club is an amateur band started in 1947. They still are playing wonderful music in various occasions. The documentary captures their ...

Hotel Hibiscus is the story of one very young energetic girl named Mieko and her internatioanl family who live in Okinawa. They live in a run ...

Nanako returns to her hometown on the tiny island of Aguni to meet her grandmother Nabbie. However, when Nanako’s ferry arrives, it is also ...

A woman follows an inner journey from island to island in search of “Pai Pati Roma”

An anthology film consisting of three linked stories by different directors, all set on an Okinawan island. The first story, ‘Aunt ...