Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.

Searching for escape in Tokyo's back alleys, a haunted English teacher explores love and lust with a...

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To...

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

Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarcer...

The main morality is the chronic desire for rest Within the historians, filmmakers, astronomers and...

When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expe...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...

Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They...

A single tree that has witnessed events, a girl who loves Forough, and a boy who reads Sohrab.

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded...

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his fat...

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges f...

At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boardi...

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction...

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to v...

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret ...

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwa...
A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding lo...

Three people from a former theater club get back in touch for the first time in 20 years during the ...