Yuya Ishii

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 ...

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 ...

Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.

Aoki is a failing novelist, and Sol is a failing pop singer. Encountering each other in South Korea, speaking different languages, they and their ...

7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from her husband’s death. She has since raised ...

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 ...

A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers ...

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 ...

Six Stories based on Six Songs.

Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls’ bar. Shinji is blind in one eye and ekes out a living as a ...

In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of ...

The emotional journey of a four-member family that fails to recognize that it is rapidly growing apart until the mother is diagnosed with ...

Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, The Great ...

Mitsuko is 24, heavily pregnant and estranged from the American father of her child. Her parents believe she is happy and successful in America ...

Miyata lost his wife early on and single-handedly raised their two children. One day he notices a change in his physical condition, and decides ...

After 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako’s life is going nowhere. When her father gets seriously ill, she has to take ...