Masahiro Yasuda

Still Walking

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

Wild Berries

A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.

The Friends

A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.

Moving

Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.

Tokyo Heaven

A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death. A blend of fantasy and trenchant realism in which Somai uses the ethereal glow of advertising images to comment on the transience of life.