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 ...

A man suicides causing ruin for his family, reasons are unknown, but his son will decide to take revenge after a succesion of events.

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 ...

Having lost his job and the company he built, a 36-year-old man at rock bottom goes on a wistful solo trip to Japan in search of the love he left ...

After going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop’s life spirals out of control when he starts receiving threats from a ...