While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life...

Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student....

Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows...

A brilliant math teacher formulates the perfect cover-up after his neighbor murders her abusive ex-husband.

A monkey trainer whose act goes wrong after an alien crash lands on Earth and injures his monkey. Desperate to perform the act, he attempts to train...