Yui Natsukawa

In the ghostly pastoral horror of Shikoku, a young woman returns after many years to her rural birthplace, only to find her best friend from childhood has died by drowning when just sixteen. The dead girl's mother, the local Shintoist priestess, has embarked on the region's famous pilgrimage - but why is she walking backwards?

Kore-eda’s acclaimed film is what the Japanese call a “home drama”, chronicling the 24-hour reunion of the Yokoyama family on the anniversary of the death of their elder son. During the day and night, we see all that unites and divides this particular family – and makes it just like any other.

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

Emotions resurface when a school teacher and her former student reconnect three years after sharing a forbidden attraction that scarred them both.