Aju Makita

A year after losing her mother, a young girl learns that she must journey across Japan to the annual gathering of gods in the sacred land of Izumo.

Koyomi Hidaka is a boy in elementary school who lives with his father after his parents' divorce. One day, he meets a girl named Shiori Sato at his father's workplace. The two of them begin to fall in love, but then they learn that their parents are going to marry each other, so they decide to run away to a parallel world in which they aren't destined to become brother and sister.

The orderly existence of a family with an adopted 6-year-old is shattered by the arrival of a woman claiming to be the child’s biological mother.

Before winning the Palm D’Or with Shoplifters, Hirokazu Koreeda directed this crime thriller filled with nuance and complexity. Defying genre conventions, its whodunit aspect quickly makes room for a deeper exploration of truth, memory and the power of stories that we tell ourselves and others.

Romance, mystery and mayhem unfold aboard a luxury liner heading for the Aegean Sea, when a butler and a passenger try to solve a baffling murder.