"The Pine's Branches" is the latest work in Murata Tomoyasu’s series “Sei toshi ni matsuwaru kioku no tabi (Journey through memories of life and death),” which he began following the Tohoku earthquake in 2011.
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their moth...
Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...
During an earthquake, a frantic man falls down a stairwell and "dies" yet his soul remains trapped i...
Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-...
“Archeology” and “Archive” share the same roots. Both words come from “Arkhé”, the Greek word for “o...
Satoshi Murayama, the shogi (Japanese chess) master known as the arch-rival of Yoshiharu Habu, the s...
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their a...
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the ...
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits ...
After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a s...
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural J...
Two creatures fall in love, weaving a colourful world together. but when darkness threatens to consu...
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the...
Rabbit and Deer are living happily and careless until their friendship is put to the test by Deer's ...
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...
Genki Ogasawara enrolls in an all boys high school. He then sets out to become popular with girls an...