Hiroki Kawata

Based on 16-year-old writer Sarie Hinakura’s award winning story Jellyfish is centered around two adolescent girls disconnected from their immediate environment of school and mates. They first get together while staring into a jellyfish tank at a local aquarium. The relationship that ensues eventually faces tension from the divergent personalities of the two protagonists, one of whom explores a heterosexual relationship with a fellow student. Jealousy and the wrath of a lover spurned are inevitable spillovers.

Majimu, a timid office temp in Okinawa, stumbles upon a company contest and proposes an idea no one expects—crafting local rum from sugarcane. With no experience but growing passion, she faces skeptical bosses, family doubts, and island politics. As challenges mount, her bold dream sparks a movement that could change everything. A heartwarming story based on the true tale of ambition, identity, and finding purpose in the unlikeliest place.

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In the final days of the Pacific War, two Japanese soldiers, a senior officer and a local recruit, are cornered during the battle of Okinawa and hide in a banyan tree, only coming down for food. Unaware the war has ended, the two await reinforcements for two years. As they wait, they discover differences in rank, worldviews and motivation.

In 2011, shortly after the complete changeover to digital terrestrial broadcasting was completed, TV Tokyo went bankrupt. For some reason, the bankrupt company was taken over by a funeral director, but broadcasting was reduced to just three hours a day and employees were sent to help the funeral director. Meanwhile, the former president of Teletext, Masayuki Shimada, dies suddenly. Shimada left a last will and testament saying, ‘Make it the most boring funeral in the world’, and new employee Imai and the others struggle to fulfil his wish...

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