Movies: Dean Yamada

A co-worker confronts Mamoru on his apparent apathy toward life, and this results in Mamoru leaving his job out of humiliation. Now alone and without work, just as it seems that things could not possibly get worse, parts of Mamoru's bicycle begin to ...

A pensive 11-year-old girl challenges the status quo with a group of misfit friends while attending a religious summer camp....

Tamotsu is expecting a persimmon to dry and yet he cannot accept that it is time for a man on his deathbed to die. As the persimmon mysteriously, or supernaturally, holds out from drying, so Tamotsu tries his hardest to keep the man alive. Only when ...

Cicada is the story of Jumpei-- a man who loses sight of his progeny when he finds out he is infertile, but then is given the gift of clairvoyance and begins to see glimpses of the future. These glimpses lead him to a series of cicada shells, which b...

A male #metoo story set in the classical music world....

Told through the eyes of her little brother, 17 year old Autumn struggles to heal from an eating disorder....

In order to escape the reality of his depressive state, a man imagines his life as a goofy Seinfeld-esque 90s sitcom. But when the lines between reality and fantasy are blurred, his double life begins to crumble....

Upon inheriting a mystical cottage on the anniversary of her brother’s fateful disappearance, Ella Grimm must learn to believe in make-believe when she finds herself magically whisked away to the Land of Nod....

Kaz, a Japanese college student, is thrown into a world of depression after his best friend is murdered in America. Elsewhere, a girl named Michi stands in front of a grave high in the mountains of Japan. Kaz embarks on a spiritual journey, where he ...

A making-of documentary for the short film Ever-Flowing, directed by Lauren Good. Crafted as a love letter from the entire crew to their director....

A guilt-ridden bounty hunter, haunted by a massacre he unwittingly caused, partners with his manipulative father to track a vengeful outlaw, only to face a moral reckoning when their final standoff reveals the true cost of his past actions....

In September of 1968, middle schooler Rita Pettis runs into her neighbor's niece rocking an afro, the first she's ever seen. When encouraged to try the new hair-do, she reports to school only to find herself suspended for wearing her natural hair....

In a country of haves and have nots, the fates of two dogs from opposite ends of society have profound effects on the families who own them....

A boy suffers from wanderlust and longs to see the world....