What is life like at a Japanese university? Four "friends" drift in and out of their friendships and face boredom, uncertainty and disengagement. And something more dangerous.
Social & External
The people behind it
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Yohta Kawase
Gaku Hosokawa
Kaoru Iida
Soichiro Tanaka
Daichi Nogawa
YASU
Kouichi Ito
A year after losing her mother, a young girl learns that she must journey across Japan to the annual gathering of gods in the sacred land of Izumo.
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Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
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The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
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Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
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