Maho Yamada

Sayoko rents out cats to help lonely people fill the emptiness in their hearts. She walks along the banks of the river with a megaphone promoting her service and her animals in a handcart. It turns out that Sayoko is lonely too, ever since the death of her grandmother. All she has left is her cats. However, one day a young man shows up from Sayoko's past. He follows her home and suddenly Sayoko's life seems to completely fall apart. (utahfilmcenter.org)

Based on a book by writer - director Miwa Nishikawa, a recently widowed writer ( Masahiro Motoki,Departures)whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief,or lack of it, in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident. (imdb)

Saeko and Yukako live next door in a small Tokyo apartment complex. After the March 11th earthquake, Saeko and Yukako both feel heavy unease. Saeko, whose husband has asked for a divorce, worries whether her daughter may get exposed to radiation. Yukako is also frightened of the radiation and insists to her husband that they must move. (asainwiki.com)

Akane moves from Tokyo to a small island where she works as a waitress serving the fishermen. People like her and glad she has made the move. Satsuki, however, is a local having grown up, married and given birth in the area. She has a foster son and after obtaining her man's permission decides to adopt him legally. Unfortunately it is the son's biological mother who has arrived on the island and is living nearby now.

On a gloomy Monday morning, my week begins. Although I am sleepy, I put on my make-up and I leave home for work at a bank. I take the subway crowded with passengers and get off at the nearest station.

With Saitama no rappa 2 (AKA 8000 Miles 2 – Girls Rapper), Yu Irie tells the story of amateur girl rappers who dream of a small big-time. The film opens with Saitama 1 B-boys, Ikku and Tom coming to town. They run into young Ayoma (Maho Yamada), inspiring her to gather her girlfriends and work up their rap routine.

Based on a 2021 novel of the same name by Ryo Asai, the film looks at the impact that a fetish for spouting water has on the lives of two former classmates. Along the way, it delivers nuanced takes on the tolerance of difference, empty diversity gestures and social isolation. Titillation is notable for its absence. An unexpected turn in the denouement brings the sympathetically portrayed fetish into contact with undeniably abnormal desires, muddying the moral waters. (hollywoodreporter.com)