

A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the drive in her all along.

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip.

A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.

When a 17-year old aspiring dancer is uprooted in her high school senior year, she finds herself divided between two boys, and she will have one last shot at making her dream a reality.

A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with his childhood friend, Yu.

Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.

Tomoyo Harada
Mari Katsuragi

Miyoko Akaza
Keiko Murata

Wakaba Irie
Madame Hiroko

Nenji Kobayashi
Yoshimi Aoyama

Kayo Matsuo
Mitsuko Katsuragi
Tori Miki
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Toru Minegishi
Yuuichi Fukaya

Hideo Murota
Kyuzo Nishio

Maiko Ogo
Fukuko Yamamoto

Nobuko Otowa
Tei Ishikawa

Yukihiro Takahashi
Jiro Katsuragi

Ryōichi Takayanagi
Taro Watanabe