Kazuyoshi Kushida

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda · With Yuya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura

A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to medical school. There he catches the eye of a fellow student, but it's another who becomes his obsession: the dead woman on the cadaver table.

Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto · With Tadanobu Asano, Nami Tsukamoto, Kiki

In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.

Dir. Chie Hayakawa · With Chieko Baisho, Hayato Isomura, Stefanie Arianne