The manager of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an odd but sympathetic elderly woman looking for work. A taste of her homemade bean jelly convinces him to hire her, which ...
A woman with an adopted child is contacted unexpectedly by the child's birth mother.
On a subtropical island, a teenage couple deal with the interwoven cycle of life, death and love.
A passionate writer of film versions for the visually impaired meets an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight.
A care-giver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.
-The confrontation of a man and a woman and her research, in the forest of Nara, a grass that returns all 997 years.
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. ...
Woodwork artist Takumi moves to a small village Asuka.He then meets Kayoko,a woman who went to the same school as Takumi.Kayoko is fascinated with the color hanezu(crimson); lives with boyfriend Tetsuya.Soon,she falls in love with Takumi.
Depicts the dissolution of a small family in a remote Japanese timber village.
A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand.
A stripper, referred to as a fire fly be a use of her attractive beauty, falls in love. She finds inner piece as love is what her life was missing.