Prologue

An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the bathhouse running for a motley group of regular c...

The story revolves around the dangers of superstition, particularly when it concerns marriage and how unscrupulous elements in society could manipulat...

A desperate woman who can no longer support her elderly mother with dementia takes her for one last drive.

Fukuura Koharu works at a child welfare office and plunges into despair overnight. Then she meets Daigo, a private-practice doctor raising his 8-year-...

While the wedding day should be blissful for the bride, Eiko, there is a secret that she can’t tell her fiance...

An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis...

After five (or six) years of vanilla-wedded bliss, ordinary suburbanites John and Jane Smith are stuck in a huge rut. Unbeknownst to each other, they...

In Hong Kong of 1962, Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow, a journalist, move into neighbouring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—...

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuo...

Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is...

Cosmetics saleswoman Kirsi Viilonen dreams of a career as a star artist. When Kirsi meets DJ and radio journalist Paula, she decides to give in comple...

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed...

The friendship between an elderly peddler and a middled aged fruit merchant.