Hokkaido, Japan: An old woman -- formerly a man -- lives by a lake in the northern reaches of Japan, gazing at Nakajima Island in its center where her daughter's body was found long ago. She hasn't been able to visit for almost 50 years. Tokyo: A middle-aged man lives on an island where criminals were once exiled in the past, earning a sparse living as a cattle herder. He is descended from such exiled criminals. He raised his only daughter by himself after losing his wife in an accident. One day, the daughter comes home from the mainland, seemingly pregnant but unwilling to explain.
Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her...
Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped ...
First business trip away from Tokyo in a while,
The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri...
An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the ...
In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with h...
With a contagious sense of abandon, three young adults' lives become intimately entangled over the c...
A history drama portraying the confrontation between the indigenous Ainu people living on Japan’s no...
Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However...
An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down ban...
Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she take...
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, ...
A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sha...
A friend of the detective has been is murdered. During the investigation, he comes across a source w...
On the Hokkaido frontier, a war veteran and Ainu girl race against misfits and military renegades to...
A message has arrived from Kid the Phantom Thief, that he will steal a Japanese sword belonging to w...
In order to find a missing university student, a detective and his buddy get involved with the owner...
This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in no...
A documentary commemorating the 100th anniversary of the assimilation of Hokkaido
A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido