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.

On his last day in Brazil, Dut spends time with his friends around the neighborhood reminiscing abou...

At the baseball club of Yame Kita High School in the southern part of Fukuoka Prefecture, fierce com...

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a ...

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky...

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's...

The story of a humble farming couple, a sudden upheaval and an unlikely saviour.

A smart high school student falls in love with her English teacher after she receives one-on-one tut...

Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for ...

Four years have passed since that emotional marriage proposal at Tsukushi Makino's high-school prom,...

Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be he...

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...
A school girl visits a house to take a koto lesson. She meets her teacher and her son and they seem ...

During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves...

While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives hav...

While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces toget...

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had...

Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gent...

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin,...

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask start...

Two girls named Nana meet on a train to Tokyo. Nana K. aims to reunite with her boyfriend and Nana O...