i just love japanese slice-of-life movies so much
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- DirectorTetsuo ShinoharaStarsTamae AndôKôdai AsakaRyôta BandôA veterinary student is not just looking for money and a career. He has a genuine desire to help animals. He personally cares and does everything he can. He rescues a dog from a cruel life and founds an association to organize help for these animals. His fellow student, among others, joins him. Years pass until news of the founder spreads.
- DirectorHiroaki YuasaStarsJun AonamiRiku HagiwaraAkana IkedaFollowing the manga source material high school girl Ooshima Shino has a speech impediment and, as such, enjoys a lack of friends and general awkwardness. Shino soon meets Kayo who is tone-deaf despite her love of music and song. None of it is a show-stopper. They decide to found a music group, which changes them both.
- DirectorRyôta NakanoStarsYû AoiElenKisetsu FujiwaraMari and Humi learn from their mother that their father has dementia on his 70th birthday. They help prepare their mother for his farewell and prepare themselves for the emotions to follow.
- DirectorTakashi KoizumiStarsAkira TeraoEri FukatsuTakanari SaitoThe story of a single mother housekeeper and a mathematics professor, who has a brain damage.
- DirectorShûichi OkitaStarsYû AoiMunetaka AokiGaku HamadaMomoko is a woman who is seventy-five-years old and lives alone. She lives in Tokyo, but was not born there having arrived there over fifty years ago. She had met a nice man, been proposed to and accepted. She gave birth to two children before her husband had died. She was alone again until finding her way into a library one day. She soon found solace and companionship in the books and her life was changed. This is her journey.
- StarsKasumi ArimuraDaisuke KurodaTôru NomaguchiPlaying a fictional version of herself, actress Kasumi Arimura enjoys a day off in this charming example of Hirokazu Koreeda's rarely seen television work.
- DirectorKim Jin-yuStarsKim Ah-songLee Rin HaKwak Jin-seokBo Ri is the only family member who can hear. She talks to her friends while finding signing with her family difficult. Wishing to be deaf, she jumps into the sea and loses consciousness. Waking up in the hospital, she pretends she's deaf.
- DirectorYuki TanadaStarsYû AoiMirai MoriyamaPierre TakiA 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.
- DirectorNobuhiro DoiStarsMasaki SudaKasumi ArimuraKaya KiyoharaA love story spanning 5 years between a man and a woman. A 22-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman both miss the last train at Meidaimae Station in Tokyo and meet there. Their relationship develops romantically.
- DirectorRyôta NakanoStarsRie MiyazawaHana SugisakiAoi ItôA strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame.