Motoyuki Itabashi

The whole play stands or falls on the fact that the leading actress cries off the cuff. Too bad Ayano can't do that.

A busy career-woman (MEGUMI) and her mother (Miyoko Asada) have complex feelings upon learning that the estranged, abusive father of the family has been hospitalized with dementia. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

A documentary about the efforts to rebuild the Kusano Shrine in Fukushima after it's destruction during the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.