Raita, a deaf boy just has lost his father.The father wanted the boy to succeed his tea shop but Raita didn't want to because his relationship with his father was not good.While he was closing the tea shop, Teiji who is a genius tea blender came to the shop and challenged Raita to compete on blending the regendally tea which Raita's rate father was famous for. 日本の文化であるお茶を題材に、親子の確執と絆を描いた心温まる幅広い世代の方々に観て頂ける作品。 店主が亡くなった町のお茶屋「ムツミ園」。跡をつぐものもなく店じまいの支度をしている。耳の聞こえない息子・本堂雷太(秋沢健太朗)は、父との確執から店をつぐ気持ちにはなれなかった。そこへ天才茶師・川上貞二（木村達成）が、「この店は、俺が継ぐから」と現れ、雷太に24時間以内のお茶バトルを挑む。雷太の決断はいかに？父の息子への本心とは？　心温まるハートフルストーリー 配給　ark

Tea Brewer / お茶をつぐ

Nozomi (Miho Nakanishi) has a younger sister, with mental disability but has yet to tell her boyfriend, Takashi (Rikuto Kumaki), about her. One day, Nozomi finally informed him of Kie upon their engagement and Takashi got confused. From there, Nozomi faces a series of problems peculiar to a family with disabilities, and there, she starts to reconsider her life. 障がい者（精神障がい）の妹・希栄がいる姉のぞみ（中西美帆）は、 恋人である崇（熊木陸斗）に希栄（納葉）の存在を打ち明けられていない。ある日プロポーズをされたことをキッカケに希栄の存在を知らせたところ、崇は困惑してしまう。そこから 障がい者家庭特有の悩みに次々と直面し、“普通”の人生とは程遠い自分の人生に絶望し、のぞみは崇との結婚を諦めようとする。ところが、あることをキッカケに改めて自分の人生を考え直していく。

Siblings / ふたり～あなたという光～

"Lunar Maria" is the story of a family who believed there were once&nbsp;seas on the moon. Shizuko, the protagonist, cares for her mother-in-law suffering from advanced dementia. She is struggling to revive her former loving relationship with her mother-in-law who has even forgotten her name but unable to do so, physically and mentally exhausted and isolated from her surroundings. We confronted the desperate reality of long-term care. 	Our country, with its emphasis on market logic, has a long history of neglecting the external costs of disposing with waste products. The consciousness of the times is unintentionally directed at people, and old people are stripped even of their dignity. The labor of nurturing human life and assisting with death is dealt with dismissively, revealing all the limits of a system that keeps calling for a sustainable society. 	How can we recapture the feeling of irreplaceability of the "elders " who have lived through so many changes? We worked on this movie with the desire to find hope in the ordinary bonds of a family who believed that there used to be seas on the moon, relying on the faint moonlight to illuminate the darkness and believing “happiness” is waiting at the other end. 昔の人は月に海があると思ってたんだって。月にも生き物がいるって信じてたんだろうね。 都内の一軒家。結月静子は、５年前に家を出て行った夫（豊）の母・晴江と二人で暮らしている。晴江は３年前から認知症を患い、静子の名前すら覚えていない。行方不明の豊を探し徘徊を繰り返す晴江。静子は義母の介護に追われる日々を送っていた。そんなある日、近所で盗難事件が発生。怪我を負った窃盗犯・小暮大輝は結月家に身を隠すが、静子に発見される。叫ぼうとする静子の口を封じる大輝。必死に抵抗する静子。二人に近づいて行く晴江にも身の危険が迫る。しかし彼女が発した意外な一言から、結月家に一筋の光が差し込み始める・・・

Lunar Maria / 月の海

In 2004, Japan enacted the "Gender Identity Disorder Special Law. Although many transgender people have cleared the requirements and changed their gender, there are still some people who want to change their gender but are unable to do so because of the high hurdles. The film also depicts the difficulties faced by transgender Japanese, including the voices of parties who were campaigning for the law when it was enacted, relationships with fathers who did not understand, social peer pressure, gender barriers in job hunting, and problems with transgender minors. There are many complex issues such as anxiety and loneliness that GID/GD/transgender people in Japan face in their daily lives, and this film was made to make people aware of these issues. トランス男性。岡山県出身。看護師をしながらLGBTQがより生きやすい社会になるよう啓発活動をしている。東京トランスマーチ・岡山レインボーパレード主催など多岐に渡り活動をしている。著者「虹色ジャ～ニ→女と男と時々ハーフ」文芸社

I Am Here -We are here together-/ -私たちはともに生きている-

On the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 that imprisoned Japanese Americans in World War II, 80 Years Later captures how families continually grapple with the legacy of their experience. Beyond physical appearances, habits and tendencies, how does one inherit trauma across generations?

80 Years Later

The fine line between a "grudge" and "love". The heart of this film is the portrayal of the love that is between a parent and a child. At times love can be one sided and get lost in translation, which turns into toxic love.

The Soloist

In a small car parked at the edge of a big city, Tokyo, there live a middle-aged husband and a wife, and that was all they had.A husband says to his wife, “When we die, we will die in the snow. We’ll die in our hometown village amid a deep snow.”Then, they start running the car heading for their village. 都会の片隅で車上生活を続ける初老の夫婦。夫はポツリとつぶやく。「死ぬなら、雪の中だ。故郷の村の雪の中で眠るように」。老夫婦は故郷のあの村へ向かって車を走らせた。

Snow Flowers / 雪の花

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