Akino is a trainee concierge at the Arctic Department Store, an unusual department store that caters exclusively to animals. Under the watchful eyes of the floor manager and senior concierges, Akino runs around to fulfill the wishes of customers with a myriad of needs and problems in her pursuit to become a full-fledged concierge.
Satsuki Takashima's father Rokuro Shinonome has been missing for twenty five years. She obtains information and a lead and travels to a village to find the missing man. She finds her father and finds out he has a new family now.
Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon (Satoshi Ohno, of idol group Arashi) is a carefree 16th-century mercenary. When the ninja council makes a power play to defeat the young Nobukatsu Oda struggling to step into his father’s warlord shoes as they expand rule across the country, Mumon jumps into the fray to satisfy his new bride Okuni’s (Satomi Ishihara of Shin Godzilla, Attack on Titan) demand that he make good on his promises of wealth. Yet Mumon soon finds what is worth fighting for beyond money or nation. A longtime JAPAN CUTS favorite known for his offbeat dramas, Yoshihiro Nakamura (Fish Story, Golden Slumber) takes on the jidaigeki epic with his signature sense of play featuring a jazzy soundtrack and fantastical ninja tricks. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was inspired as a little boy to become a rakugoka after seeing the legendary Danshi. He had found his calling. After his resistant parents relented to their son’s pleas, Danshun at age 17 became an apprentice of Danshi, the man dubbed a “wunderkind” and “genius” of the rakugo world. He soon realized however how hard the training was, and embarked upon a rigorous existence in which he had to deliver newspapers to earn a living. Living with hardship and joys, Danshun and his fellow apprentices would eventually rise in the rakugo world. A resplendent cast comes together to depict the rough and tumble world of a man who loved rakugo above all else and was destined to fulfill a dream.
1814 год, Эдо. Один из самых густонаселённых городов в мире, изобилующий крестьянами, самураями, торговцами, знатью, художниками, куртизанками и, возможно, даже сверхъестественными существами. Профессиональный художник Тэцудзо в свои пятьдесят может гордиться клиентами со всей Японии. Каждый день он создает неповторимые произведения искусства — от гигантского портрета Бодхидхармы на листе бумаги площадью 180 квадратных метров до пары воробьев на рисовом зернышке. Вспыльчивый, чересчур саркастичный, равнодушный к сакэ или деньгам, он потребует целое состояние за работу, которая его по-настоящему не заинтересует. Третья из четырёх дочерей Тэцудзо, рождённая от второго брака, прямолинейная 23-летняя О-Эй унаследовала талант и упрямство отца. Она часто рисует вместо него, но никогда не оставляет своей подписи.
