Satoko Abe – MRQE

Breakable

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of a ménage à trois between the editor of a magazine, his girlfriend, and his young sister.

Boku no ojisan

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

14-year-old Takuya lives in a rural town near mountains and rivers. His 29-year-old uncle Koji works as a graphic designer in urban Tokyo. Koji’s father dies and Takuya is arrested for attempted robbery-the two young men must now face a crucial crossing in their lives. The concluding chapter to director Higashi Yoichi’s “boy and river” trilogy, the film highlights contemporary themes like family, adolescence, and the healing properties of nature. The wild but beautiful Kuma River stars as a threatening symbol for the boy’s rite of passage. Supernatural beings reign in the mountains above the village.

Tôkyô yakyoku

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He gives no explanation of his absence and his family asks no questions. It is only through the questions that a young writer named Asakura, who is secretly in love with Hisako, poses of local shop owners, that we learn that Hamanaka’s disappearance may be related to the fact that the woman everyone thought he would marry, Tami – who runs the cafe across the street from the Hamanaka electric store – had ended up tying the knot with another man who died soon thereafter.