Whirlpool of Flesh

In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who...

A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.

Married couple Tom and Julie begin to question the stability of their relationship when an old friend comes to visit... with his latest mistress in...

A young working urban couple is overwhelmed with the birth of a baby girl but parenthood has its own challenges.

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the...

Two college friends, now in their thirties, admire each others' lives and feel trapped in their own. Wes, tied to a demanding career and...

Wally, a struggling playwright and actor, reluctantly agrees to catch up with his old friend Andre, a theater director who disappeared several years...

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist....

After years of being released from prison, Huseyn calls his wife Gulshad to meet him. Gulshad is hopeful that she will be reunited with the person...

Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own with a sperm donor is derailed when she falls in love with John, an older married professor, destroying his...

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her...

The members of a reading group exchange cultural and literary references with such vigor that there’s little room for anything else: an attempt...