Kaoru Kobayashi
Kaoru Kobayashi is a Japanese actor born in Kyoto. A multi-award winning thespian, he won best actor at the 30th Yokohama Film Festival and best-supporting actor at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Sorobanzuku.
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Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka
In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy ventures into a dreamlike world shared by the living and the dead in search of his missing stepmother.
Kamui gaiden
A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.
Gedo senki
From Goro Miyazaki, the son of Oscar-winning Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, comes a story of wizards, dragons, princes and witches. Based on Ursula K. Le Guin's "Earthsea" series.
Quill
As a Labrador puppy, Quill is sent to live with a couple, Isamu and Mitsuko Nii, who work as volunteers, training guide dogs (seeing eye dogs). When he grows to an adult dog, he is taken to a guide dog school, by a friendly, yet firm trainer Satoru Tawada.
Mononoke-hime
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Ainu tribe, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
Osôshiki
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
Hanare goze Orin
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.