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Dancing in the Twilight
2023 30 min
[Short Movie] Meiko Yamada isn’t ready to grow up. She spends her days pouring out her feelings of not having somewhere she belongs in tanka poems. One day, Nanako Tamaki visits the café Meiko works at and sees her poems. She resonates with the poems, and she forces Meiko to leave the café with her. ...
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The Cactus in the Bed
2023 30 min
[Short Movie] Yoshinori Yanagida, who turns 35 this year, aspires to be a movie actor. Because of the lack of opportunities, he has resigned himself to spending much of his professional life working as a stand-in for other actors and TV personalities. After a chat over drinks with popular actor Ryo Ogawa, who he did ...
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DEBRIZ
2023 30 min
[Short Movie] Unsuccessful commercial director Wada, young cameraman Sasaki, and producer Aoki go to a scrap factory to shoot a corporate advertisement. Once there, Wada and Sasaki find a doll made entirely of garbage lying on the ground. Suddenly, a wormhole opens up, sucking them in and leaving Aoki behind. They find themselves in the ...
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La Magistral
2023 30 min
[Short Movie] People pleaser Ai Ogino reunites with her former classmate Tsukiko Dojima. Unlike Ai, Tsukiko has been searching for “her own way” and has become a pro wrestler. Impacted by Tsukiko’s wrestling match, Ai signs on with a pro wrestling group and endeavors to become a pro wrestler herself. At the wrestling gym, Ai ...
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Long-Term Coffee Break
2022 30 min
[Short Movie] Yuko is a career woman and works at a major corporation. One day, a man named Naoki hits on her. Naoki is a couch-surfing actor, he is unique and Yuko finds him attractive. One year later the two get married. After marriage, the affairs of couples around them start to come to light. ...
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Boy Meets Tank
2022 30 min
[Short Movie] At 14 years old, Tasaki is fed up with his depressing life in a rural town. He spends time with his shy friend, Eda, but his days are lackluster. To make matters worse he is bullied by his classmate Takiguchi. The small joy in his life is the occasional conversation with a girl ...
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Far, Far Away
2022 30 min
[Short Movie] Sara is 21 years old and works part-time at a family restaurant. One day, she meets a woman named Takeuchi who’s come in for an interview, and is visibly shaken. Her boyfriend, Yuto, mentions that he spotted Takeuchi while he was riding home on his bicycle, sending Sara into a rage and leaving ...
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The Youngest Daughter
2022 30 min
[Short Movie] On a weekday morning like any other, fourth grader Natsumi is on her way to school when she suddenly decides to run away from home. Leaving her school bag in a luggage locker, she heads for her grandmother's house, who lives far away. Her grandmother is surprised by her sudden visit, but she ...
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Windows
2019 30 min
[Short Movie] Hairdresser Asako and her boyfriend, Mori, who delivers pizzas part-time, have lived together for five years. Their relationship has lost passion but isn’t completely loveless. After they visit Asako’s friend Chika, Mori has a change of heart and declares he is ready to be a father. Mori works hard and tries to be ...
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Waking up to Dream
2020 30 min
[Short Movie] What's most important to us is always changing and disappearing from view. In the winter of 2009, Akiko Shimizu is a student at a high school in Tokyo, one as far away from her house as she could have possibly gotten accepted into. She is in her second year and is always sleep-deprived ...
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My Baddest Spicy Cooking
2020 30 min
[Short Movie] Fumi Aijima, an editor of the food magazine Weaving Days, is under relentless pressure from her boss, Minazuki. Her “stress gauge” is at its limit. To make matters worse, she is diagnosed with dysgeusia, a taste disorder, and has to eat food covered with seasonings day in and day out. One day, when ...
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Le Cerveau: A Newborn Gynoid
2020 30 min
[Short Movie] Saya Maekawa struggles to raise her son Sota, who is affected by a strange malady known as “the neon illness.” Saya must stay on medication to participate in a transplant surgery for her son. But one night before an important operation, Saya gets into a car accident, and her own life is put ...
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I Don’t Want to be Like You
2020 30 min
[Short Movie] Megumi is a 28-year-old office worker who doesn’t have a boyfriend. Driven by her worries of being alone for the rest of her life, she signs up for a matchmaking service. One day, Megumi is shocked at being mistaken by her boss for her single 42-year-old coworker Satoko Koyama. Impatient to get married, ...
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Born Picses
2020 30 min
[Short Movie] 10-year-old Midori lives with her mother while her father lives abroad on business and hardly ever comes home. Midori can sense that her mother feels alone but knows there’s nothing she can do to help. Midori’s feelings mirror her mother’s. She spends time with her friends to fill the void in her heart, ...
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Cloudy, Occasionally Sunny
2018 30 min
[Short Movie] One day, Haruko, who lives with her mother, receives a welfare-dependent inquiry letter about her father. Since her parents’ divorce 25 years ago, she hasn't heard anything about him. Out of her whole family, he was only kind to Haruko. She decides to meet him. As a metal worker, her father’s favorite saying ...
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Last Judgement
2019 30 min
[Short Movie] Inaba is a candidate in the entrance examination of Tokyo Art University, one of the top Japanese Art Universities. He is eager to take the exam because it is his fifth and final chance. The entrance exam lasts for two days. On the first day of the exam, a fellow candidate, Hatsune, catches ...
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Farewell Family
2018 30 min
[Short Movie] A year ago, Yohei witnessed his father’s sudden death. Yohei, who still can’t get over his loss, leaves his pregnant wife at home to attend the first anniversary ceremony of his father’s passing. His mother acts as if his father will still come home at any moment, talking to him at the family’s ...
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Saaya’s Box
2018 30 min
[Short Movie] Living with her lover and another child on the way, Saaya’s mother decides to leave Saaya with her own mother and to carry on with her new life. Since then, 8-year-old Saaya has lived with her grandmother and doesn’t feel like she fits in her own family. While Saaya’s mother can’t bring Saaya ...
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Quiet Hide-and-seek
2019 30 min
[Short Movie] A peculiar incident occurred in the Kamata family. Two weeks ago, Mom disappeared after a fight with Dad. While Dad and Shiho don’t have the slightest idea where Mom has gone, 13-year-old Kojiro knows her whereabouts. He helped her to hide somewhere in the house. Mom can only truly feel at home during ...
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The Gift of Pachamama
2009
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2009 Washington DC Independent Film Festival Grand Jury Award: Best Feature Film 2009 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival Best Cinematography Award On Bolivia’s vast salt flats, 13-year-old Kunturi helps his close-knit Quechua family hand-cut salt bricks, trading them for necessities in a life deeply tied to the land. When his grandmother falls ill, Kunturi joins ...
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PEACE NIPPON
2018 111 minutes
There are moments of breathtaking beauty that can only be seen once in a lifetime. Providing footage from 47 Prefectures (over 200 locations) in Japan and filmed over eight years, this film captures such moments in 4K. The hope is that this movie will inspire "people to know more about Japan and to fall further ...
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Venetia’s Garden
2013 98 mins
Venetia Stanley-Smith is an English woman who lives in a 100-year-old farmhouse in the village of Ohara, Kyoto. Her eco-friendly lifestyle is a harmonious blend of English tradition and the Japanese seasons. Thanks to her appearance on the TV program At Home with Venetia in Kyoto, Venetia’s hand-crafted lifestyle that she shares with her Ohara ...
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