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This year's selection.
Heart, Beating In The Dark and Sleep
About Her Brother (Otôto)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2010; Director: Yôji Yamada; Writer: Yôji Yamada, Emiko Hiramatsu; Stars: Ryo Kase, Yû Aoi, Yuriko Ishida, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Fumiyo Kohinata)
Three women take over the management of a pharmacy together, but things are set to change when one of them marries.
Bad Company (Mabudachi)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2001; Director: Tomoyuki Furumaya; Writer: Tomoyuki Furumaya; Stars: Yamato Okitsu, Ryosuke Takahashi, Yuta Nakajima, Ken Mitsuishi, Asako Yashiro, Mikio Shimizu)
A teenager is caught between his desire to rebel and his desire to please his father.
The Dark Harbour
(Country: Japan; Year: 2009; Director: Takatsugu Naitô; Writer: Takatsugu Naitô; Stars: Kazuki Hiro'oka, Shinya Kote, Akaji Maro, Yuko Miyamoto)
A fisherman's life is changed forever when he decides to help a woman and child hiding on his property.
Dear Doctor
(Country: Japan; Year: 2009; Director: Miwa Nishikawa; Writer: Miwa Nishikawa; Stars: Tsurube Shofukutei, Eita, Kimiko Yo, Teruyuki Kagawa)
A conman posing as a doctor in a remote mountain village finds himself in trouble when a local woman he likes becomes seriously ill.
Heart, Beating In The Dark (Yami utsu shinzô)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2005; Director: Shunichi Nagasaki; Writer: Shunichi Nagasaki; Stars: Noriko Eguchi, Shoichi Honda, Kaori Mizushima, Shigeru Muroi, Shunichi Nagasaki, Takashi Naitô, Shirô Sasaki, Tarô Suwa)
A young couple meet their older selves running from their dark pasts.
I Just Didn’t Do It (Soredemo Boku Wa Yattenai)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2006; Director: Masayuki Suo; Writer: Masayuki Suo; Stars: Ryo Kase, Asaka Seto, Kôji Yamamoto)
A young man finds himself caught up in an implacable machine of a justice system after he is falsely accused of molesting a girl on a train.
Sleep (Nemuriyusurika)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2011; Director: Katsumi Sakaguchi; Writer: Katsumi Sakaguchi; Stars: Mariko Hirano, Aimi Kobayashi, Miyuki Komagata)
A girl was raped at 15, and gave birth to her daughter. Seventeen years later, mother, daughter, and grandfather live a meagre life together in their van.
A Stranger of Mine (Unmei Janai Hito)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2005; Director: Kenji Uchida; Writer: Kenji Uchida; Stars: Yasuhi Nakamura, Reika Kirishima, Sô Yamanaka, Yuka Itaya, Kisuke Yamashita)
A man struggling to get over the break-up of his relationship finds everything changed in the course of a single night.
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