Soundtrack: Junpei Sakuma

Direction Masahiro Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Eri Tokunaga · Hideji Ôtaki · Kin Sugai

Plot A retired fisherman (Tatsuya Nakadai) takes his granddaughter (Eri Tokunaga) on a road trip to visit family members and to look for a new home.

Direction Masahiro Kobayashi

Cast Yuto Kobayashi · Tokio Emoto · Michiko Kichise · Daisuke Maki

Plot Kobayashi’s son, Yuto Kobayashi, stars as a down-on-his-luck 16-year-old named Ryo Kawai. Ryo grew up fatherless, and has been trying to make a living by working at a local convenience...

Direction Masahiro Kobayashi

Cast Kazuki Kitamura · Keiko Oginome · Naoto Takenaka · Yasufumi Hayashi

Direction Masahiro Kobayashi

Cast Teruyuki Kagawa · Seiichi Tanabe · Nene Ohtsuka · Ryuzo Tanaka

Plot Kazuo Murata is a detective who has lost his wife and eventually the meaning of his existence.

Direction Masahiro Kobayashi

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Mieko Harada · Kaoru Kobayashi · Haru Kuroki

Plot Kuwabatake Chokitsu, former leading man of film and stage, runs away from the luxury nursing home where his daughter and son-in-law have stashed him after forcing him to write a...

Direction Edwin · Masahiro Kobayashi · Zhang Lu

Cast Mariana Renata · Nicholas Saputra · Masahiro Kobayashi · Yûko Nakamura

Direction Masahiro Kobayashi

Cast Sanshô Shinsui · Takeo Nakahara · Kazuki Kitamura · Mari Natsuki

Direction Masahiro Kobayashi

Cast Kikujiro Honda · Masahiro Kobayashi · Yûko Nakamura

Plot The minimalistically staged Strangers When We Meet displays similarities with Kobayashi’s The Rebirth (2007) and provides a sensitive observation of a couple who, tormented by loss, blame and guilt, adhere...