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Isao Suzuki is a legendary Japanese jazz bassist known worldwide. Once elected as one of the top 20 jazz musicians in the world, he is better known outside of Japan than inside, thanks to his sessions with many renowned musicians. What kind of life has he led as a musician, what kind of influence has he had on his younger students, and what has he been like in his later years as the Godfather of Jazz? We take a look back at his life through interviews and his personal life.
Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.
Film directed by Koyu Ohara.
A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.
Young lovers Makiko and Hidekazu break up because of misunderstanding. Makiko flies to New Zealand and soon recovers. When she is about to marry a man who really loves her, Hidekazu suddenly appears in her life again... Between a man who loves her and a man she loves, how would Makiko's choice be?
