Hana no Asuka gumi

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's family. Neighbors Hiromi, writer Chagawa with admirer Junnosuke strive alongside them in postwar Tokyo's

Two different high school children - a swimmer and an academic - set off on a quest together one summer.

Atsuko and Akira are a husband and wife duo with a daughter and a son. Atsuko is in charge of the retirement finances. She saves from money given to her by her husband and also earns money herself by

A timid and aimless man's love for his cat is his only solace in a life dominated by his mother and the two women she chooses for him to marry.

A family in ruins recovers through their encounter with a "Zasikiwarashi", the japanese spirit.

A couple are perfectly happy to not breed and procreate. Thus their life is a content and unselfish one. He writes and admires his wife. However, she informs him that she wants a child. They try and t

Asuka meets a former boyfriend, Aoki, she had thought to be dead for 17 years when he comes back as a water spirit. However, Asuka is now in a new relationship and must secret him away while he has hi

A human drama about a man who would do anything for money becoming friends with a child who is then taken hostage.

In 1940s Turkey, the war is recently over but the wounds are still fresh and the Second World War is going on next door. A different family lives in each room of a mansion. They all lead a scarce life

A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.

Takeshi Yamada arrives in a small village in the Hokuriku region. There, he begins to work at a small factory which makes shiokara (salted fish paste). Through the introduction of the CEO of the facto