Adrift in Tokyo
A thug offers to pay a law student’s gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.
Ten Nights of Dreams
Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki’s same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the…
Tears for You
A love story about two step-siblings, Yota and Kaoru. Long ago, Yota’s mother married Kaoru’s jazz-playing father, effectively merging the two families. Unfortunately, Kaoru’s father skipped town, and Yota’s mother…
Hanging Garden
On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are all open with each other, the entire household knows the opposite is…
Kaza-hana
In Somai’s final film, an alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he’s impulsively made a suicide pact. Though…
Eating Women
Follows the daily lives of 8 women with different backgrounds through what they eat and whom they date.
Tokyo Sonata
RyĆ»hei Sasaki is keeping a secret from his wife, Megumi and his two teenage sons. Even though he leaves the house every day, he’s not really going to work. He’s…
The Adventures of Milo and Otis
When Milo the cat and Otis the dog are separated, they each set off on an adventurous and often perilous quest across mountains, plains, and snow-covered lands to reunite with…