Tsugaru Lacquer Girl

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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Makuko

Makuko

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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Utsuroi no hyôhonbako

Utsuroi no hyôhonbako

A women challenges herself to do more and overcome various obstacles of life by taking inspiration from her soothing music.

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Lingering Memories

Lingering Memories

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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My First Love

My First Love

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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A Light in the Distance

A Light in the Distance

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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The Town of Whales

The Town of Whales

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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