In 2017, a stage performance is scheduled in a small town. The young actors are to present British playwright Simon Stephens’ “Morning” for the first time in Japan. The savage play has been attract...

Hitomi's homeroom tutor is taken away by the police for suspected child prostitution and child pornography. His sex video is leaked and a rumor starts that Hitomi is the girl in the video. She can’...

Konoko wakes up on the beach and goes looking for a barber to take out the bug stucking on her head. Doi, who will soon be a father, goes to make gloves for her wife as a gift, Kazuko wakes up at t...

One summer, Yoshiko receives a phone call about her grandfather's death when she is having sex with her boyfriend. The funeral of her grandfather begins with her slovenly uncle, nagging aunt, shut-...

Fumi and Kazu are partners in love and law; they run the first law firm in Japan set up by an openly gay couple. Together for 15 years, the lawyers want to raise a family of their own in a country ...

Smalltown doctor Hozumi and his close friend, cartoonist Soeda, both fall in love with Asako. Hozumi steps back and allows Soeda to marry her. But he becomes sadistic, abusing Asako and taking a mi...

Hikaru Honda works at a small electronics factory in a suburb north of Kanto region and leads a quiet life with his dog Ringo. One day, he decides to go to a Paul McCartney concert at Tokyo Dome wi...

Born in Shizuoka in 1965. He worked as an assistant director, did some theater work, worked in a cinema, and in film distribution. While he was involved in the advertising and distribution of many ...

Based on four tanka poems, selected from 1,200 submissions to a contest with the theme of light, this film illustrates the meaning of light in the lives of four female protagonists. Shiori, Yukiko,...