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.
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 ...
Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However...
A history drama portraying the confrontation between the indigenous Ainu people living on Japan’s no...
Wataru, his woman Kotoe and daughter Shiori are ranchers and dairy farmers in Hokkaido in northern J...
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...
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...
An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down ban...
A friend of the detective has been is murdered. During the investigation, he comes across a source w...
Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her...
A message has arrived from Kid the Phantom Thief, that he will steal a Japanese sword belonging to w...
This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in no...
In order to find a missing university student, a detective and his buddy get involved with the owner...
A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido
First installment in a series about local Japanese urban legends. This installment includes 'Turbo-G...