Arata Iura

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s revelatory international breakthrough finds the recently deceased in a limbo realm where they must select a single cherished moment from their life for them to take into the next world. This bittersweet fantasia serves as a panoramic vision of the human experience and a profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze time.

A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul, immerses herself in the living world, and falls in love with a video store clerk.

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.

Manga artist Rohan Kishibe visits a church in Venice and hears a masked man confess that he accidentally killed a vagrant and was cast a curse that brings him despair when he is most happy. Rohan becomes engrossed in this mysterious confession and uses his special ability to turn people into books and read their memories and experiences… Eventually, he finds that he is under the same curse.