Koto visits an empty house that used to be her grandmother's home. In the garden, there is a strange cardboard house where an old man named Take lives, who records the sounds of the city, buries them in the ground, and creates a "sound tomb"... This is the story of a somewhat strange but "cool" winter.
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Amon Hirai
Keiichi Suzuki
Umeno Uno
Setsuko Ogawa
Takeo Gozu
Tadashi Sakata
Koto visits an empty house that used to be her grandmother's home. In the garden, there is a strange cardboard house where an old man named Take lives, who records the sounds of the city, buries them in the ground, and creates a "sound tomb"... This is the story of a somewhat strange but "cool" winter.
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.
Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick corner, the team tumbles out into the woods as their car pulls away. Now they must make their way through the thick of nature and thick gunfire to accomplish their mission. Not a single word of dialogue is spoken throughout the entire film. Instead, the music, sounds, images and deeply truthful acting turn a simple plot into an intense experience. Passion and intrigue keep building to the very end.
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.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.