Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.

Hito no sekkusu o warauna

2007

Japanese

6.2

♡ 4

Action

artist

based on novel or book

Comedy

infidelity

older woman younger man relationship

Romance

teacher student relationship

university

Nami Iguchi Director

Shûgo Oshinari as Domoto / Mirume's friend Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as En / Mirume's friend

Miwako Ichikawa as Student

Yôichi Nukumizu as Yamada / teacher

Mirume is a 19 year old college student who falls in love with Yuri, an almost 40 year old art teacher at his university. Yuri isn't your typical college professor, having a quirky sense of humor and unpredictable personality. When Yuri invites Murume to her studio, she playfully seduces the still naive 19 year old student. Things become more complicated when Mirume discovers that Yuri is married to a much older man....

Always: Sunset on Third Street

2005

Japanese

7.7

♡ 4

90%

japanese economic miracle

shōwa era (1926-89)

tokyo, japan

Takashi Yamazaki Director Koyuki

Koyuki as Hiromi Ishizaki

Tomokazu Miura as Shirô "Akuma" Takuma

Yôichi Nukumizu as The Bicycle Shopkeeper

Pierre Taki as The Ice Seller

Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's family. Neighbors Hiromi, writer Chagawa with admirer Junnosuke strive alongside them in postwar Tokyo's evolution.

The Handsome Suit

2008

Japanese

6.4

♡ 2

61%

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Tsutomu Hanabusa Director

Ryû Nakatani as

Yôichi Nukumizu as

Keiko Kitagawa as Hiroko Hoshino

Nozomi Sasaki as Reimi

An overweight cook is given the opportunity to woo the girl of his dreams when he is given a "handsome suit" that transforms him into an idealized human being in this absurd Japanese comedy.

Udon

2006

Japanese

6.5

♡ 4

Comedy

Drama

japanese cuisine

Katsuyuki Motohiro Director

Yôichi Nukumizu as Bookshop Clerk

Susumu Terajima as Captain Udon Villain

Yûsuke Santamaria as Kosuke Matsui

Yô Ôizumi as Udon Customer who brings asparagus

Kosuke is 31, and tired of his hometown where nothing happens. On a whim, he departs for New York with dreams of making it big. 6 months later, he straggles home... defeated, and saddled with debt. Awaiting him are his old friends, a caring sister, a disgruntled father ...and a bowl of noodles. Namely, "udon" noodles. The town is built around udon, sustained by udon, nationally famous for udon.

Tomie

1998

Japanese

5.3

♡ 6

Ataru Oikawa Director

Yoriko Dôguchi as Dr. Hosono

Yôichi Nukumizu as Manager

Mami Nakamura as Tsukiko Izumisawa

Kôta Kusano as Yuuichi Saiga

Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?

252: Seizonsha ari

2008

Japanese

5.4

♡ 2

Nobuo Mizuta Director

Yôichi Nukumizu as Haruo Tsudanuma

Satoshi Matsuda as Ippei Aoki

Takayuki Yamada as Makoto Shigemura

Seiyô Uchino as Shizuma Shinohara

At some point in the distant future, a massive, catastrophic earthquake strikes Tokyo, causing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to rise meteorically and the largest typhoon in recorded Japanese history to sweep toward the city and inundate it with water. The Tokyo Fire Department and its team of crack rescuers swing into action, and shortly after they do, a distress call arises from an underground subway station - with repeated indications of the rescue code, 252 252, and the exclamation "We Have Survivors." It soon becomes apparent that the local rescue squad must attempt to save the survivors, doing so at the expense of their own lives and safety. Written by Nathan Southern

Little Forest: Winter/Spring

2015

Japanese

7.6

♡ 10

Jun'ichi Mori Director

Yôichi Nukumizu as

Takahiro Miura as

Ai Hashimoto as Ichiko

Mayu Matsuoka as Kikko

Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again.

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Little Forest: Summer/Autumn

Hito no sekkusu o warauna

Always: Sunset on Third Street

The Handsome Suit

Udon

Tomie

252: Seizonsha ari

Little Forest: Winter/Spring