Keisuke Kinoshita – MRQE

Chichi

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

A middle-aged man’s family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.

Nihon no higeki

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother’s despair becomes interminable.

Shin yorokobimo kanashimimo ikutoshitsuki

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

A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.

Kono ko wo nokoshite

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.

Nijûshi no hitomi

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

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world despite the fact that war is looming.

Narayama bushiko

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who’s girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin’s loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?

Karumen kokyo ni kaeru

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A girl who’d left her hometown for the exciting adventure of the big city returns home years later for a visit, soon somehow causing scandal.

Osone-ke no ashita

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

Kanko no machi

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Ikite iru Magoroku

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000