Movies: Tomoki Kimura

In 1985, in Japan, which was about to enter the bubble economy, there was a region where contradictions in the world seemed to gather. Nishinari Ward, Osaka. Origins, prejudices, school violence, sloppy homes ... There were many children who dreame...

Kanata and his mother relocate from Fukushima to a new area where he finds trouble to connect with his peers, being uncertain of how to deal with the death of his father which was caused by an earthquake when he was younger. But Kanata slowly opens u...

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This is Uminari...

2041 - The west of Japan was destroyed in an earthquake. In between the slums within the rubble autonomous areas form with their own currency and administration. In the third communal district, known as Slum-Polis, criminals terrorize the poor popula...

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Mina, a high school student who lost her best friend Hal to suicide before the school festival, lives with self-loathing. She finds hope in a new student, Haruka Kuroda, a drummer, and attempts to give form to Hal's unfinished music. They are about t...

This is Hakubune...

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Akashi, a solitary man with no family, does the dirty work for Hiramoto, a yakuza boss. His life changes when he meets Yo, a Chinese restaurant worker who has no place to live. As a fellow struggler, Akashi opens up and offers her his home but soon r...

Atsushi limps and escapes from a closed facility for drug addicts. He has only one goal: to kill his wife. Straying around, he is hit on a country road at night. When the driver gets out to check on him, Atsushi takes the opportunity and steals his c...

Insurance salesperson Miho feels cozy living with her boyfriend Yuya who, refusing to give up on his musician dreams, lives a self-indulgent lifestyle. But she wonders to herself if things will be OK like this. One day, an e-mail exchange between Yuy...

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