Enormous personal events unfold throughout Kôji Fukada’s soulful Japanese drama “Love Life,” premiering at the Venice Film Festival: a marriage, a reunion, an affair and, most notably, a death.

The series takes a surprising turn in episode #3, focusing on a dark love triangle between Shu, Kisara, and Ayano. Engage Kiss emphasizes the tragic sacrifices people make for love, ...

Only Yesterday follows a woman called Taeko across two different timelines. In 1982, she’s in her late 20s and working an office job in Tokyo, and escapes to the countryside for a break from the ...

Taeko (Fumino Kimura) lives with her six-year-old son, Keita (Tetta Shimada) — a preternaturally brilliant Othello champion — and her good-looking husband, Jiro (Kento Nagayama).

Love Life isn’t an easy film to watch, because much of it is simply so deeply sad, but it is moving and doesn’t go for neat resolutions. It tells the story of Taeko (Kimura Fumino), a social ...

Oscar-nominated director Isao Takahata (The Tale of the Princess Kaguya) and general producer Hayao Miyazaki worked together on 1991's Only Yesterday, an animated film about 27-year-old Taeko, a ...

The death of a child places a marriage in uncertain limbo in Japanese auteur Koji Fukada's heartfelt but somewhat maudlin new film 'Love Life.' ...