Kanto is a 14-year-old boy and a descendant of Japan’s indigenous Ainu people. He lives with his mother, Emi, who runs a souvenir store i...

Amanai Shigeki paves his own way to practice Ainu Puri (the Ainu way) and cherish his roots in Shiranuka, Hokkaido. He passes down the...

Born in Miyagi, director Sonomi Sato returned to her hometown after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami to tell the stories that ...

This is the story of a family living on an island in Okinawa. Haunted by painful memories, Mika has stayed away from her home for many...

Mana leads a group of young people who start a call girl service for elderly clients, affectionately called “Tea Friends.” One day at a...

In the summer of 1945, as the war came to an end, a defeated battalion of the Japanese Imperial Army found itself at the border of Burma,...

Mikami, a former yakuza who has spent most of his life in prison, sets out on a quest to find the mother he was separated from as a...

With Each Passing Breath  follows Koryu, an 88-year-old Rokyoku performer, and her 93-year-old accompanist Yuko, as they pass down their...