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Ahogado por una creciente deuda, un panadero de dorayakis contrata a una amable anciana después de probar su deliciosa sorpresa. Poco a poco, ella va abriendo su hermoso mundo interior. ¿Podrá tener ella el secreto de su éxito?

En una isla subtropical, una pareja de adolescentes se enfrenta a la vida, la muerte y el amor.

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with his childhood friend, Yu.

Una apasionada escritora de adaptaciones cinematográficas para personas con discapacidad visual conoce a un fotógrafo mayor que se está quedando ciego gradualmente.

Una mujer con un hijo adoptado es contactada inesperadamente por la madre biológica del niño.

A care-giver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3-minute and 11-second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.

Describe la disolución de una pequeña familia en un remoto pueblo maderero japonés.

La francesa Joan viaja a Nara donde conoce a Satoshi.

Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of her foster mother's home.

Naomi Kawase raises her voice in anger, blaming her foster mother for threatening to abandon her as a young girl. The camera reveals Kawase's impatience when coming to terms with her foster mother's senility, and at the same time dwells on her aging naked body with a subtle sense of affection. Twelve years after shooting 'Katatsumori (1994)', her first film about the foster mother, Kawase made 'Tarachime' to document the decline of one life at the beginning of another - during the making of the film, Kawase's son was born.

About Tadashi Yoshimura's maternity clinic where he practice "natural births" deep in the forest of Okazaki (Japan).

Kawase tries to come to terms with her late father, whom she never knew when growing up, and contemplates getting a tattoo like his.

Impressions of the director's mother waving, burning trash, slideshow of mom gardening, slow motion of mom pointing skyward until Naomi jumps over her. No real time sound - but foley noises or kids playing. Ends with sunsets as Naomi sings a nursery rhyme.

A filmed correspondence between Kawase Naomi and Hirokazu Koreeda.

Woodwork artist Takumi moves to a small village Asuka.He then meets Kayoko,a woman who went to the same school as Takumi.Kayoko is fascinated with the color hanezu(crimson); lives with boyfriend Tetsuya.Soon,she falls in love with Takumi.

Part of the Jeonju Digital Project, Visitors consists of three films from three different directors. "Lost in the Mountains," by Hong Sang Soo. "Koma" by Naomi Kawase, and "Butterflies have no Memories" by Lav Diaz.

A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand.

The elderly people living in the forest areas of the Yoshino Mountains and the village of Nishi-Yoshino are resilient loners. Kawase records them in their daily activities, revealing their humorous and frank philosophies about hard work, isolation, loneliness, and growing old. One woman dryly says, "Turn your camera off, being old is not entertaining." Another adds philosophically, "The wind will blow, the future will come. Without suffering there is no happiness."

In this autobiographical documentary, filmmaker Naomi Kawase seeks to reach her mother and father who abandoned her at birth.

A film-within-a-film from Kawase's "Radiance" (2017). The film depicts a man who is obsessed with the woman of his destiny and clings to the past, and his wife who suffers from dementia.

Thirty-year-old Hako unexpectedly discovers she has a father that she never met, while he records the moment live on camera. Unexpected emotions, bitterness, and forgiveness rise to the surface in the unscripted scenes between them.

A photographer (Machiko Ono) and a filmmaker (Naomi Kawase) challenge each other to shoot--one to photograph the other to film--two young actresses, one from Tokyo, the other from the countryside. The photographer seeks naturalism in his compositions, and Kawase observes and comments on his work. The competition between the photographer, the filmmaker, and the actresses creates a charged atmosphere.

The director agrees to film the last days of her chronically ill friend, the photographer and film critic Kazuo Nishii.