Heroic Purgatory
Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents. Through this disruption, Rikiya suddenly starts remembering his youth as a revolutionary.
Tokyo Newcomer
A young Chinese Go board game player arrives in Japan for training. He doesn't speak Japanese and becomes embarrassed living there. By dropping his Go stones, he happens to meet an old Japanese woman who sells vegetables on the street. They become familiar with each other. The young Chinese Go player, the old woman named Igarashi and her grandson Shoichi then live together.
Only Yesterday
In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
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Yoshishige Yoshida
Director
Takeshi Ôbayashi
as
Tatsuo Kobayashi
as
Kaneko Iwasaki
as
Atsuko
Mariko Okada
as
Nanako
Tôru Kazama
as
Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
as
Hideo Nakaizumi
as
Janine Chun-Ning Chang
as
Nanako
Isao Takahata
Director
Laura Bailey
as
Nanako
Ashley Eckstein
as
Yaeko
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