Joji Matsuoka

Leaving her alcoholic husband, Eiko takes their son Masaya away from Tokyo and back to her hometown in a Kyushu rural mining community. She toils ...

When people finish their day and hurry home, his day starts. His diner is open from midnight to seven in the morning. Pork, miso soup combo, ...

Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a ‘good’ Japanese woman should ...

10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They live in such a poverty that Sota cannot even ...

Set in an elementary school and centered on a boy named Takuya and a new transfer student named Saeko. Takuya’s classmates think that Saeko ...

Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school’s grounds. The dog, named Kuro, ...

Every night, Master (Kaoru Kobayashi) is busy with customers at the restaurant he runs. He has a worried face, looking at the funerary urn which ...