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Dancing in the Twilight
2023 30 min

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. While the ...
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The Cactus in the Bed
2023 30 min

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 work with ...
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DEBRIZ
2023 30 min

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 middle of ...
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La Magistral
2023 30 min

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 gradually starts ...
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Long-Term Coffee Break
2022 30 min

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. In the ...
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Boy Meets Tank
2022 30 min

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 named Sakura. ...
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Far, Far Away
2022 30 min

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 Yuto confused. ...
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The Youngest Daughter
2022 30 min

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 understands Natsumi's ...
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Windows
2019 30 min

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 faithful to ...
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Waking up to Dream
2020 30 min

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 since she ...
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My Baddest Spicy Cooking
2020 30 min

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 she feels ...
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Le Cerveau: A Newborn Gynoid
2020 30 min

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 in danger. ...
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I Don’t Want to be Like You
2020 30 min

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, Megumi continues ...
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Born Picses
2020 30 min

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, but it ...
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Cloudy, Occasionally Sunny
2018 30 min

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 was, "Live ...
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Last Judgement
2019 30 min

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 his eye ...
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Farewell Family
2018 30 min

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 Buddhist alter. ...
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Saaya’s Box
2018 30 min

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 to live ...
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Quiet Hide-and-seek
2019 30 min

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 the daytime ...
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The Gift of Pachamama
2009

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 inland salt sea (the Salar de Uyuni), 13-year-old Kunturi and his family cut bricks of salt by hand, which they use to barter for goods. The Quechua people have lived and worked ...
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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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Three Moons
2015 71 mins

In the same series as "The Pierrot Prays to the Moon", which won the "Gold Medal Prize" at the Chicago International Film Festival Television Awards. Mayu is a wife,  mother, and daughter-in-law who lives in a small village surrounded by mountains. Every day, she helps to manage her husband's restaurant,  visits her mother-in-law in the ...
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The Pierrot Prays to the Moon
2013

Gold Medal Prize at Chicago International Film Festival Television Awards. Shizuru Tamai (Takako Tokiwa) lives in a small mountain town in rural Japan with her mother and grandmother. Her grandmother is partially unable to move, and Shizuru has to care for her with her mother, who tries to keep Shizuru shackled at every opportunity. Shizuru’s ...
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Boat to the Moon
2014

US International Film & Video Festival 2015 - First Place Gold Camera Award At a small station in a very small town somewhere in Japan, a woman with eyes as beautiful as the sky, sits at a bench. A man comes to the same station to get a train back to the city, and here ...
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Journey of the Gods: The rebuilding of Ise Jingu Shrine
2014 95 mins

The Shikinen Sengu ceremony takes place every 20 years at Ise Grand Shrine, where all the shrines within its precincts are reconstructed and the gods are transferred to the new houses. This documentary entails 70 year old top actress Kirin Kiki on her first pilgrimage to Ise, and her meeting with Hirohiko Okano, a poet ...
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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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The Heisei Dilemma
2010 98 mins

In the 1980's, juvenile delinquents and truants were becoming big social problems. Totsuka Yacht School was reeducating those children, with severe training which included physical punishment. However, after the deaths and disappearance of a few trainees, Hiroshi Totsuka, the principal of the school who was once hailed a "hero of the era" was suddenly being ...
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The Defender of Death-row Convicts
2012 97 mins

Japan is a country that still retains the death penalty. All suspects in crimes that strongly shook the nation - Shoko Asahara from the 1995 Aum Tokyo subway gas attacks, Masumi Hayashi from the “poisoned curry” murder case in Wakayama, an unnamed minor from the murder case of a mother and her child in the ...
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Promise
2012 120 mins

Masaru Okunishi is a prisoner who has been on death-row for over 40 years. In 1961, 5 women died from drinking poisoned wine in a small village gathering in Nabari City in Mie Prefecture. After his arrest, he appealed his innocence on the grounds that the police coerced his confession. He was found not guilty ...
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Goodbye, Debussy
2013 244 mins

Based on the popular mystery novel by Shichiri Nakayama, Good-bye Debussy tells the story of cousins Haruka and Lucia, who are more like sisters. After Lucia’s parents go missing while volunteering in Africa, she becomes a part of Haruka’s family. Haruka, an aspiring pianist, makes a promise to Lucia to one day play Claude Debussy’s ...
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