"Passion doesn't need a language"
A young Dutch woman, Rosa, comes to Japan to learn the art of preparing fish from Master Hon, the best fish-chef in the world. Against her expectation Rosa has to work in the cleaning-kitchen, together with other unpaid novices. Here begins her lonely journey through the alien and hierarchic world of the famous fish restaurant.
Laurence Roothooft
Rosa
Makoto Makita
Master Kon
Shinji Otani
Suzuki-san
Ayako Kobayashi
Aki
Kenichi Sano
Tomio
A young Dutch woman, Rosa, comes to Japan to learn the art of preparing fish from Master Hon, the best fish-chef in the world. Against her expectation Rosa has to work in the cleaning-kitchen, together with other unpaid novices. Here begins her lonely journey through the alien and hierarchic world of the famous fish restaurant.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
“อูมา” เธอตื่นขึ้นมาใน “พาราไดซ์ ฮิลล์ส” ศูนย์พัฒนาบุคลิกภาพที่ตั้งอยู่บนเกาะเขตร้อน ซึ่งบรรดาครอบครัวชนชั้นสูงจะส่งลูกสาวมาเรียนรู้การเป็นสุภาพสตรีสมบูรณ์แบบ โดยมี “นายหญิง” ผู้ทรงพลังคอยช่วยปรับบุคลิกภาพ พวกเธอต้องผ่านชั้นเรียนมารยาท เรียนร้องเพลง คอร์สความงาม ยิมนาสติก และการไดเอ็ตสุดเข้มงวด แต่ไม่นานอูมาก็ตาสว่างเมื่อค้นพบว่า ณ ที่แห่งนี้มีความลับดำมืดซ่อนอยู่ภายใต้ความงามอันผิวเผิน เธอและเหล่าเพื่อนๆ จึงต้องหาทางออกจากพาราไดซ์ ฮิลล์สให้ทันเวลาก่อนที่ทุกอย่างจะสายเกินไป
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.
Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of his hotel. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper, entangling him further with the hotel and its curious inhabitants.
The elder one of each generation in the Furlong family is equipped with an extraordinary capacity. James discovers the nature of his at the time of an accident which causes the death of his father and his grandmother. Haunted by this mysterious evil he hides in a forest not to harm anybody. A few years later, Mae also takes refuge it in the forest and meets James.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.