Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
Keiko Tsuruoka’s film is at once traditional and contemporary: it gently mixes present-day gender and sexuality politics with the old-fashioned...
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A 5th grade elementary school student meets a transfer student who has a mysterious charm about her. He then learns her big secret.
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A women challenges herself to do more and overcome various obstacles of life by taking inspiration from her soothing music.
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One summer day, Tokiko, whose life in Tokyo is going nowhere fast, gets on an overnight bus to the countryside. When she arrives, she meets Yohei...
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A sensitive account of adolescent love, wherein a young man falls in love with a beautiful but older woman living next door, thereby plunging into...
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Mado wakes up in the morning finding all the people disappeared. Hearing a strong typhoon might strike, everyone has escaped the disaster. She...
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Machi, Tomohiko and Hotaru attend the same high school. Machi misses her older brother, who disappeared six years earlier. The trio takes up his...
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