Life Can Be So Wonderful
Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan.
Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan.
Ryuhei Matsuda
Shuichi
Reina Asami
Tomoko
Akira Emoto
Haeo
Mikako Ichikawa
Kanoko
Hitomi Katayama
Mayumi
Hana Kino
Shizue
Miyuki Matsuda
Noe
Toshinori Omi
Customer
Kyooko Tooyama
Hostess
Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan.
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.
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.
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.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
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.
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
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.