Yumiko, who is devoted to her bedridden husband, suffers from severe pain, ringing ears, and auditory hallucinations. At the request of a friend, she gets a brain scan. She worries about her future as condition gradually worsens. 60 years earlier, intense fighting has begun to take place in Okinawa. A Japanese soldier hides in a bunker with a woman, her son, and her sister. The two stories become increasingly linked as time goes on...
Yumiko, who is devoted to her bedridden husband, suffers from severe pain, ringing ears, and auditory hallucinations. At the request of a friend, she gets a brain scan. She worries about her future as condition gradually worsens. 60 years earlier, intense fighting has begun to take place in Okinawa. A Japanese soldier hides in a bunker with a woman, her son, and her sister. The two stories become increasingly linked as time goes on...
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
A 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.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they discover they both have a score to settle with a particular crooked cop. However, Nami has doubts about ever trusting a man.
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.