Ayu Kitaura

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Omnibus film that tells five stories from a radio station and its listeners.

A drama of two aging women who live a solitary life collecting discarded items from a nearby town. One day they return home to find a young girl...

While researching a story on a school for problem children, Nakahara meets Emi, a college volunteer with a compelling tale of her own. After...

Akio, a piano tuner, visits the kimono shop owned by the Nishimuro family. Their only daughter, Teru, accidentally farts in front of him while...

"Anyone can become a detective."

Five passengers stare at a middle-aged man weeping on a train - a young man with a broken heart, an office worker exhausted from work, a new station...

When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, single mother Saori knows that there is something wrong. Discovering that one of his teachers...

The making of the movie "Nobody Knows" by award-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Haruo, a director, auditions for a film already partially shot in Taiwan. Thus he meets Ma, a young Taiwanese skater just as disoriented as he is.

Kazuto has a lifelong dream of becoming an actor, but has been suffering from a special medical condition where he faints and collapses when he gets...

Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, who is a psychopathic murderer according to Masuda.

21st Century Girl is an omnibus feature that is of the girls, by the girls and for the girls. The work of 15 women directors under the age of 30,...

Kinuko was married to her husband for many years, but her husband passed away. Since then, Kinuko has lived in the same home with her granddaughter...