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.

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An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a ...

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build...

A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly sta...

Shun Miyata's new life in Tokyo takes a dark turn when he and coworker Yuka discover their boss Yuri...

Haunted by bad luck, two friends learn to trust in the world again and take their destiny into their...

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area o...

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

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife fr...

This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors a...

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expeditio...

A successful doctor comes into conflict with his friends and family and is slowly driven towards sui...

Love is love. Someday, the pain of being in love will be an endearing memory. No matter who the feel...

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism...

Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan ...

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals....

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...

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