Cinematography: Fuminori Minami

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Mayumi Wakamura · Yuki Tanaka · Norikatsu Nagano · Misako Watanabe

Synopsis A fictional film that is nonetheless inspired by an account of two Japanese soon-to-be kamikaze pilots has the two stop by a local school near their base one last time to play the piano before they proceed on their suicide...

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Yoshi Kato · Hiroyuki Nagato · Kirin Kiki · Fumie Kashiyama

Synopsis Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left alone, he befriends a young...

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Yumiko Fujita · Michiko Kohno · Takashi Naitô

Synopsis The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and...

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Chieko Baisho · Tamami Hirose · Gin Maeda · Mako Ishino

Synopsis April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts winning, she starts getting tired more easily. She is sent back to the...