Directed by Satsuki Okawa • 2011 • Japan, United States
Following the death of his hoarder mother, a young man eagerly looks forward to cleaning out her junk-strewn home—but first he’ll have to contend with his sister, who is intent on preserving the house just as it is—in this tender look at grief and letting go.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1970 • Japan
Starring Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Junzaburo Ban
By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, e...