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Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One...
One Bowl of Kakesoba
Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers...
This Is Noriko
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up...
A Human Promise
The Blue Mountains '88
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his...
River of Fireflies
A one armed boy wants to become a football (soccer) player.
Kimi ga kagayaku toki
In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the...
The Burmese Harp