Takashi Yamanaka

A young man falls in love with a woman he meets at a party, but when she leaves him, he must face some uncomfortable truths.

A young man is sent from Japan to Taiwan in order to get his disenfranchised brother to sign away his inheritance rights.

A man has a baby, runs away, then comes back, but he can’t just show up, apologize, and hope that makes himself a grown man.

Hanako Haibara was born and raised in the city of Tokyo. After she gets dumped by her boyfriend, while in her late 20’s, she goes on blind ...

Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his cat Tama. Daikichi was born and raised on ...

A depressed widower, a bored housewife, and a gay lawyer all intersect in this triptych of love lost.

Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The ...

The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger ...

When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic ...