Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hirō Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important…

When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year’s-worth of sexual services — her motivation, aside from money, is never explained — the relationships among the…

The film portrays the confrontation between younger brother Akira Miyamoto (Shunya Shiraishi) and elderly brother Atsushi Miyamoto (Ryohei Suzuki) on Higanjima.