From Kobe

4.5

Katsura is a 19-year-old college art major. She moves to Kobe from Tokyo due to her father's work transfer. There, she learns about the Great Hanshin Earthquake from residents in Kobe. Katsura meets a wheelchair bound…

The People Living in Hadenya

Documentary intimately depicting the fishing village Hadenya in Miyagi Prefecture's Minamisanriku Town from March 2008 through the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. Hadenya is a small fishing village of…

Seven Princess Driver

6.8

Eight households in Princess Villa one day get a notice about an auction on the house. Oh Honey gathers around the other residents of the villa and suggests they protect it from being auctioned off. However, the amount…

Forbidden Memory

The documentary revolves around the collective memory of people on the September 1974 Malisbong Massacre which is part of the overall counter insurgency effort of Ferdinand Marcos during the Martial Law. At least 1,500…

Kyoto Jin no Hisokana Tanoshimi: Natsu

The protagonists are a young proprietress of a long-established confectionery shop and a mysterious foreign professor who has lived in Kyoto for over ten years. The second installment focuses on “summer,” a season…

Oro

7.2

When nature becomes an excuse for violence, everything that is gold turns into blood. A secluded community dependent on mining is disrupted by an armed group who claims to be a representative of the government which…

Kou Jin

7.5

A boy is attacked by a giant monster and gets injured. The injured boy runs to a nearby village where Akane lives and warns them about the monster. The residents are frightened. Akane, Sakakida Soei and Kikuchi Enshu…

Protectors of Firefly River

About half a century ago, the project of constructing a dam came up in the Koubaru district at Kawatana town in Nagasaki prefecture where the traditional countryside foresty environment, so-called Satoyama, remains.…

Bon Uta

7.2

2015. Even after 5 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake, the residents of Futabamachi in Fukushima Prefecture are unable to return home and have been living in temporary housing. What gives the people of Futabamachi…

Cross Road Season 3 ~ Gunshu no Seigi

6.0

Serial murders occur in the Ota ward. Ozeki Tatsuro, who works for the Omo Rinko Police Precinct’s Police Affairs Division, is preoccupied with handling phone complaints from residents of the ward. Meanwhile, freelance…