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- Journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault, seeking to prosecute the high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing Japan's outdated judicial and societal systems.
- A portrait of genius music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
- Follows students and their teachers for one year at a public school in Tokyo to unveil how they interact and shape one another.
- Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws strength from Mt. Hayachine, where the spirits of humans ascend after passing.
- Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the sea shore.
- Filmmaker Ema Ryan Yamazaki follows a coach and his team as they try to win Japan's national high school baseball championship.
- A coming of age tale about Kanto, a 14 year old boy, and a descendant of Japan's indigenous Ainu people, who struggles to come to terms with the recent loss of his father. One day, he learns about the small hole in the cliff in nearby forest that Ainu people considered a path to the other side of the world - where dead people live. Kanto decides to visit the hole, hoping to see his deceased father.
- Odoriko are dancers of the dying art of Japanese strip theater. Once a popular form of entertainment alongside standup comedy, today all but 20 strip clubs have closed nationwide. Still, the women travel solo with their costume cases from one dressing room to another.
- In April 2017 Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto made a guest appearance in the Veteran's Room at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. Stephen Nomura Schible recorded this concert with his camera.
- The sites and sounds at the 800-year-old Horenji Temple in Kyoto -- electro music, English, takoyaki, a kaleidoscopic elephant -- would seem to belie its long history. But in order for the family-run temple to thrive in the 21st century, it must continue to reinvent itself. Intimately following future head priest Scion (30) along with his fiancée Haruka and firstborn sister Ariya, critically-acclaimed director Ema Ryan Yamazaki captures one unexpected corner of Japanese society's struggle to balance tradition with progress.
- First graders in a Tokyo public elementary school are presented with a challenge for the final semester: performing "Ode to Joy" at the ceremony for the new incoming first graders. Ayame, who often struggles to keep up with the group, is determined to play a major part - the big drum.
- A foreign woman befriends a couple.
- A short film about a cello player who is horrible at auditioning....and even worse at knowing when to stop auditioning.