Asakusa Kid
In 1965, Takeshi Kitano drops out of a university and enters the Asakusa France Za, which is a performance theater. He becomes an apprentice to Senzaburo Fukami, who is a…
Food Luck!
Yoshito grew up with his mother Yasue after his father passed away. His mother ran a yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurant that his father had left behind. Yoshito enjoyed eating his…
Looking Up at the Half-Moon
Two 17 year old teens are hospitalized for different reasons. Ezaki suffers from Hepatitis A, while Akiba is due to a weak heart. The relationship between these two hospital patients…
The Kiyosu Conference
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata (Koji Yakusho), Hideyoshi Toyotomi (Yo Oizumi), Nagahide Niwa (Fumiyo Kohinata) and Tsuneoki Ikeda (Koichi…
Kakekomi
Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taking refuge in Tokeiji, a monastery in Kamakura.
After the Rain
Akira Tachibana is a 17-year-old high school student. She was once a promising athlete, but an injury has prevented her from taking part in track and field. One day, Akira…
Yakiniku Dragon
Set in the 1970’s in the Kansai region of Japan.. Yong-Gil is Korean, but he moved to Japan and settled down. He runs a small restaurant named Yakiniku Dragon. He…
I Am a Hero
Hideo Suzuki is a 35-year old manga-ka helper, whose entire life appear to get stuck around his exhausting however low-paying project, unfulfilled fantasies, bizarre happenings and unsatisfying relationships. He sees…
The Boy and the Beast
Fullmetal Alchemist
Two alchemist brothers go on a quest for the Thinker’s Stone after an try and revive their lifeless mom goes horribly fallacious.