Yukiko Iioka

Tadashi Nohara, guionista habitual del director ganador del Oscar Ryusuke Hamaguchi ("Drive My Car)" debuta en la dirección con este sofisticado drama sobre un grupo de amigos y los secretos que esconden. Un grupo de amigos y familiares quedan interconectados a medida que se enamoran y se desenamoran, cruzan las líneas entre ser amigos y ser socios e interrogan sus propios sentimientos y deseos con la esperanza de encontrar algún grado de felicidad esquiva.

Sachi quits her job at a museum, starts working part-time at a café, and moves into an apartment recommended by a regular customer. Although she has started a new life, Sachi is still haunted by the memory of her partner whom she will never see again.

Contada en tres movimientos, es una colección de historias protagonizadas por personajes femeninos que trazan las trayectorias entre sus elecciones y arrepentimientos. Un triángulo amoroso inesperado, una trampa de seducción fallida y un encuentro que resulta de un malentendido.

Shiori, Yukiko, Kyoko and Sachiko continue to live each day with untold feelings inside. Unable to forget a colleague on a trip, a father who is ill, a friend who works at a store that is about to close, and a long-lost husband, each woman takes a step forward. There is a light that sometimes embraces them, calmly and gently.

Yukiko comes to Tokyo from Ehime and continues to live in a place where she knows nobody. One day, she happens to meet a young man who comes and goes from her workplace.

The third part of a trilogy focusing on the Tohoku region that is comprised of dialogues with victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Ideas on how to share experiences of the disaster with future generations, a challenge touched upon in the previous films The Sound of Waves and Voices from the Waves, is found in folk tales from the region. Co-directed by Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke.

At a train station in the suburbs of Tokyo, an accident takes place causing death and injury. Tsuyoshi is at the scene and witnesses the death of a woman. Right before the accident occurred, Tsuyoshi took a photograph of the woman, who carried a gentle look. Later, Tsuyoshi learns the woman has a daughter named Kiriko. Tsuyoshi meets Kiriko.

The poet Koichi Masuno always goes to his friends to give them his poetry collection "Kujikena", which is about to be published.

Kohei and Akira are a couple running away together without a destination. They meet a geology researcher namend Shiraki on the way and the three visit a log cabin of a famous geologist Kanbe. With fortune teller Eiko, ex-girlfriend of Kanbe, joining the party, five people of diverse ages, sexes, statutes, and professions happen to spend a night together in the log cabin deep in the mountains. As the strangers get to know each other and grow closer, each one of their hidden pasts is brought to light. Meanwhile, following a thunderstorm and an earthquake, something even worse is approaching them...