Takako Matsu

Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren’t ...

New Year’s Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment ...

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of ...

In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in ...

Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he grows and the mushrooms he picks in the hills. His ...

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku – ...