Umibe no Koibito

When Yuriko and Shinji meet in a seaside town, it is love at first sight, and Shinji moves into Yuriko’s place. Career troubles put a strain on their relationship as Shinji’s street performer lifestyle just isn’t…

Ano Hi Bowling Jo Kara Derarenaku Natta Koto

The stage is a bowling alley just before closing time. Three young people who work at a bowling alley are talking about their past memories on the eve of closing. "Oh yeah, have we ever been stuck in a bowling alley?"…

Invisible Nation

An intimate portrait of former President TSAI Ing Wen fighting for the survival of Taiwan’s democracy at a time when freedom around the world is under threat from authoritarianism. (Source: pavilion.taicca.tw) ~~…

Tokyo Landmarks

Takeshi, who is visiting Minori, who works part-time at a convenience store to support himself, learns that Minori is harboring a runaway girl named Sakurako. Sakurako is a minor, and Takeshi tries to persuade her…

The Making of a Japanese

What are the traits necessary to become part of Japanese society? Following 1st and 6th graders at a public elementary school in Tokyo for a year, we observe a school system that might differ from other countries.…

Little Room

Tsz Ching remembered the last time she saw Ho Fung, which was an evening spent at a hotel. That night felt like nothing had happened, yet it was long and exhausting. (Source: microfilm-music.hk)

Suton

Sae, a woman living alone in Tokyo, begins working at a neighborhood café. Her life seems placid, but an encounter with a customer triggers an avalanche of memories from her past, revealing the background of the bitter…

Hikkoshi Tantei Sakura

6.5

Tendou Sakura, a new member of society who will start working at a bookstore this spring, likes mystery novels and solving riddles more than just three meals a day. When she was in high school, she started a mystery…

Sister Yu Jeong

Yu Jeong, who works as a night shift nurse at a general hospital’s cardiology department, is now told that her 12th-grade younger sister, Gi Jeong, has been arrested by the police as a suspect in an infant abandonment…