A mother’s letter to her distant daughter unfolds through quiet, intimate visuals, exploring memory, separation, and the strength of maternal love across continents.
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Kazumi Taguchi
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Nicky Ni
Mother
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A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.
A prequel to the story of the legendary samurai and one cat. In Edo era, there was a legendary samurai named Kyutaro Madarame who are feared as a "Madara the Devil". He was somehow hired for killing a cat named Tamanojo. Just before Kyutaro slashes on Tamanojo, he realizes that Tamanojo looking into his eyes and said "meow". But why?
mateus strives to feel closer to his mother and sister, whilst struggling to make sense of his eerie surroundings. he spends his day chasing after memories he keeps of them when they were happier, as he reminisces a time that they felt less distant. but as he remembers the past, he forgets to remember the present; and his journey of nostalgia leads him somewhere he would rather never go.
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A man breaks in a house, in which he never went before. However, he seems to got some memories of it...
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An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
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A family of six's fresh start on 1990s Vancouver Island unravels as their youngest child, Sasha, witnesses the increasingly dangerous behavior of her older brother, Jeremy.
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Evan, a musically gifted orphan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater. After discovering his talent, the Wizard gives Evan the name "August Rush" and devises a plan to profit from his talent. Little does Evan know that his parents, Lyla and Louis, are searching for him too.
In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.
Two years after bringing peace to the galaxy, Steven Universe sees his past come back to haunt him in the form of a deranged Gem who wants to destroy the Earth.
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