Susumu Terajima

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.

Abandoned by the brotherhood of his yakuza clan, tough guy Yamamoto (Beat Takeshi) is forced to leave Tokyo. He goes to Los Angeles in search of Ken (Claude Maki), his younger half-brother. Alone and with a new identity, Yamamoto finds himself frustrated by foreign surroundings, especially since he doesn't speak the language.

When a psychic comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personality Disorder whose dangerous 13th personality, Isola, must be stopped.