The Rotten Wheelbarrow

A 19th-century widow has to make an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a foreign ship sinks off the coast of her Icelandic...

A former communist militant and a "live and let live" man form an unlikely friendship on a park bench, sharing their life stories with humor and...

An elderly woman's dementia takes over more rapidly than expected as she tries to remember her past.

During a general cleaning weekend in his village house an old cemetery groundskeeper discovers that he is just as much of a burden for his family, as...

A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict.

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual...

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the...

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...

Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they...

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...

Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.