Yûya Ishii

23-year-old Sawako is stuck in Tokyo with a dead-end job, a deadbeat boyfriend, and no passion for life. Her wake-up call is a request to return to her provincial hometown and take over her terminally ill father's shellfish packing business. But that means facing up to all the problems she has been running away from.

As a young child, 13-year-old Junichi Miyata was bullied at school and cried easily. . Now as a middle-aged man, Junichi Miyata works as a driver for a parcel delivery company. He lives with his two kids, unemployed 19-year-old Toshiya & 18-year-old Momoko. Junichi's wife passed away from stomach cancer several years earlier. Junichi now finds it difficult to communicate with his kids and he's worried that he has cancer like his late wife. (asianwiki.com)

A whimiscal comedy from Japan that sees our eponymous protagonist - pregnant, broke, but feisty - follow a wafting cloud to whatever awaits her. Bolstered by an engaging performance by Riisa Naka, Yûya Ishii's fable follows Mitsuko as she winds up in the backwater tenement she briefly lived in as a child, and sets out to reinvigorate the forlorn, morose inhabitants. (guardian.co.uk)

17 year old Norio elopes with his 34 year old teacher to Tokyo. There he is supposed to prep for law school, while they both live off the teacher's savings. Unfortunately both money and Norio's scholarly abilities are running low. (imdb)