A Garden in Winter

A Garden in Winter

A Garden in Winter is about Alexandra, who owns a garden where someone builds a shed to spend the night. At first, she’s bothered, but then she...

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The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group...

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Tokyo Sunrise

Tokyo Sunrise

Ren struggles with the death of his longtime friend Kaoru. He finds a painting of a girl that Kaoru left behind. Ren sets out on a journey to find...

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Vanitas

Vanitas

What is life like at a Japanese university? Four "friends" drift in and out of their friendships and face boredom, uncertainty and disengagement...

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His Lost Name

His Lost Name

Middle-aged widower Tetsuro finds an unconscious, homeless young man on the riverbank in his small seaside town. Offering him room in his home...

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The Kumamoto Dormitory

The Kumamoto Dormitory

Born and raised in Kumamoto, Mine Goichi went to Tama Art University and spent four student years living in the Yuhigakusha Dormitory in Tokyo, a...

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Ow

Ow

Jobless young Tetsuo and his girlfriend Yuriko are inexplicably immobilized after laying eyes on an orb-like object that appears out of nowhere...

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Speak Low

Speak Low

Sara and Ryo have been going out for 5 years. They take a trip from Tokyo to nearby Atami in November of 2017. Ryo is 28 years old and is getting...

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Howling

Howling

Aya adapts Hyakken Uchida’s eponymous short story in which characters wonder whether they are alive or dead, as the reality of their existence is...

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Kanagawa University of the Arts Visual Concept Planning Department

Kanagawa University of the Arts Visual Concept Planning Department

Akira Okuda worked as an assistant at the Visual Concept Planning Department of Kanagawa University of Arts, accomplishing his work aimlessly...

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YEAH

YEAH

A young woman, Ako, wanders around a sparsely populated housing estate in a rural city, Mito, where she spends her time speaking to objects and...

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