Kashou Iizuka

A reclusive man’s world begins to open when a riceball-loving boy and his older brother draw him into their warm, homemade weekend tradition.

Kento enjoys cooking with canned foods and eating them at a camp-ground. Nanako likes cooking with natural ingredients she obtains herself from nature. The only thing in common between them are that they eat and sleep alone at camp.

1960s Japan—economic boom, Olympic pride, and a crackdown on “public morals.” An anti-prostitution law targets women but spares male sex workers, the so-called “blue boys.” When police arrest the doctor performing their sex reassignment surgeries, the sensational “Blue Boy Trial” begins. Three transgender women take the stand, igniting a national debate on identity, medicine, and happiness—long before the language of LGBT existed. Though the court ruled surgery legal, the verdict cast a shadow: no such operations would occur in Japan for 29 years. Half a century later, this buried history still reverberates in the lives of sexual minorities.

Shinya and Yui fall in love. Can the two have a future together when Yui dreams of having children and Shinya, who is transgender, can't have children?

High schooler Yu is growing up in a small town in rural Japan, and having a difficult time at summer school, made all the worsen by the fact that he's deeply unhappy about their female body, and has always seen himself as a boy. Yu's confusion grows when a pretty girl from the year below confesses that she has a crush on him.

A high school student living in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture, has a Filipino mother who works at a Filipina hostess bar.