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.

Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kid...

The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning ...

The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri...

A history drama portraying the confrontation between the indigenous Ainu people living on Japan’s no...

An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the ...

First business trip away from Tokyo in a while

Wataru, his woman Kotoe and daughter Shiori are ranchers and dairy farmers in Hokkaido in northern J...

Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However...

In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with h...

An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down ban...

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 ...

In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, ...

With a contagious sense of abandon, three young adults' lives become intimately entangled over the c...

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...

Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she take...

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

This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in no...