Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.
The movie, based on a story by Yuri Nagibin, depicts a young girl named Vika enjoying the ...
Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, ma...
The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract cust...
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured ...
Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the villag...
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionall...
Masato is a young ramen chef in Japan. When he finds his late mother's journal after the s...
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she no...
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past,...