STORY In this action film set in a port town, an outstanding navigator from a maritime university (KOBAYASHI) becomes embroiled in trouble, caught between love and friendship. Where the Horizon Meets the Sun showcases beautiful locations in Hiroshima, Miyajima, and Kure, including the Kure City Public Pool and the now-closed Rakurakuen amusement park. CAST Akira…
HIROSHIMA EYE
STORY Emi’s mother, Meiko, lives in Hiroshima and Meiko was a survivor of the atomic bombing.Meiko was exposed to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and walked around Hiroshima searching for her father. During this time, she met some “special students from Southeast Asia” who were studying at a university in Hiroshima…
STORY Chiena, a junior high school student, is preparing for an entrance exam. Her grandmother is in the hospital with a brain hemorrhage, and she visits her every day, but all she does is study in her room. One day, she finds her grandmother’s notebook in the room, and Chiena feels her grandmother’s feelings, so…
STORY Yuko is a high school girl, who grew up in a single-parent household in a small rural town. She had always struggled with making decisions. She also disliked any kind of flashy events. For her, the most comfortable thing was the time when nothing happened, in other words, “normality”. Her father, being the only…
STORY One day, two young students in Hiroshima, Mocchi and Ayaka, meet an odd American tourist named John and give him a tour of their city. At the same time, a mysterious light appears in the night sky above Hiroshima, and a prominent researcher arrives to pursue the mystery. Meanwhile, a schoolboy called Yuya dreams…
STORY After receiving an early-stage dementia diagnosis at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, widower Kristofer leaves behind his Reykjavik home hoping to solve the greatest mystery of his life. As a student in London five decades earlier, Kristofer had fallen in love with Miko, whose father owned the Japanese restaurant where they both worked….
STORY Koyori EDOGAWA, whose been marked with her abundant talent as a manga artist. Kiriko ASAI, the most popular student who must always be perfect. Two high school students who are always under scrutiny sympathize with each other and search for freedom. No one knows the real you, so can you be happy now? Kiriko…
STORY An unsettling drama about a marriage which is steadily losing its spark. Momoko (Noriko EGUCHI) leads a respectable life as a housewife. She dresses elegantly and ensures that the apartment looks just right, down to the last detail; she attends to her husband assiduously and goes to great lengths to cook him proper Japanese…
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