Movies: Masayoshi Otsuka

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects....

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among the other patrons regarding her identity....

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar....

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The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man....