Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again.
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...
A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.
Ava, an award-winning chef at a big-city restaurant, has lost her spark. Her boss sends her out to f...
Centaur lives a modest life with his family in rural Kyrgyzstan until he abruptly becomes the center...
A shy country girl chooses a part-time job at a maid cafe where she serves customers while dressed u...
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that ...
Daphne is a young woman negotiating the tricky business of modern life. Caught in the daily rush of ...
In the dawn of the Meiji period, the Gokumonjou, an inescapable prison, has been established in the ...
After her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the ...
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
Beautiful, sad story told from multiple perspectives. A man picks a dahlia before entering his home....
Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exoti...
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural J...
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the ...
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
When beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees ...
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...