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.

Mr. Takazawa, an elderly invalid who is cared for at his home by Haruko, a young nursing student, is...

Three tales that center around sex and citizens of Tokyo: A repressed woman embraces her sexuality, ...

A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrat...

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...

A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote ...

A woman grapples with the consequences of her husband's imprisonment.

Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there ...

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

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears....

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

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

High schooler Haruna befriends loner Yamada, then is drawn into the tangled relationship between him...

In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a...

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she stru...

In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In ...

On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among...

Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's fami...

Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for ...