Toshie Negishi

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.

Dir. Takashi Miike · With Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Jun Kunimura

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.

Dir. Akira Kurosawa · With Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi

Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.

Dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi · With Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima

An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.

Dir. Rikiya Imaizumi · With Kasumi Arimura, Hana Toyoshima, Ryuya Wakaba

An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family confronts grief, guilt, and the possibility of reconciliation across generations.

Dir. Akira Kurosawa · With Sachiko Murase, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Tomoko Otakara

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda · With Masaharu Fukuyama, Koji Yakusho, Suzu Hirose