Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.

A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him ...

An overworked career woman leaves her life in the city for an island vacation only to encounter ecce...

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has n...

In a small town on the countryside, every young boy is forced to have the same bowl-head haircut kno...

As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by...

When Taeil gets hired as a tailor's assistant, he dreams of becoming a fully-fledged tailor to be ab...

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes...

Sōra is a high school student who is basically invisible at school. He is friends with Chūya, who is...

New Yorkers Paul and Meryl Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling aro...

"Golden Times" tells a story of melancholy, alcohol and loneliness. In the nocturnal light of the st...

This Oscar-winning animated short film tells the story of one man's love life as seen through the ey...

Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film i...

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergeneration...

It's summer vacation, but two high schoolers have been instructed to clean the (empty) swimming pool...

Set in Silicon Valley, the film tells the story of Abhi, a young immigrant techie who hopes to get f...

Northern China, 2004. When miner Zhang Baomin returns to his home, a small and isolated mining villa...

From the moment she and her fellow students arrive in the mountain village of Yasaka, Mikoto knows t...

Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters fro...

Mirai Suzuki (Yuko Oshima) becomes responsible for her mother's debt which is owed to loan shark Kao...