Masato Hagiwara
The Lion Standing in the Wind
Mar. 14, 2015The Lion Standing in the Wind
Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides ...
Jyukai: The Sea of Trees Behind Mt. Fuji
Jun. 25, 2005Jyukai: The Sea of Trees Behind Mt. Fuji
Near the slopes of Mount Fuji, there is a so called suicide forest, an infamous place where people who are tires of living have their last breath ...
Café Lumière
Sep. 01, 2004Café Lumière
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist ...
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Nov. 20, 2004The Place Promised in Our Early Days
In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. A ...
A Class to Remember
Nov. 06, 1993A Class to Remember
A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.