Shinya Ueno Movies

An alcoholic and his wife explore a beach site in a strange afterlife. Here they meet a number of odd characters who remind them of their past.

The story is set in Abashiri, Hokkaido, and follows a high school student, Nagi, who transferred from Osaka.

We see a woman lying down. She awakens from a dream of a festival she visited in her youth to a scene that feels familiar. Reminiscing on her first love, her marriage, giving birth, and meeting the love of her life, she wanders for a while. Was the place she met him again a dream, or was it Heaven?...

The tired man standing on the platform is 27-year-old Ayumu Ueno. Facing an unwelcome trip to his childhood home, he goes to light a cigarette. What he finds in his pocket, however, is a jujuba fruit. The shiny red skin brings back vague memories of his second mother, Rèn Shìróng. Born in the...