Nao Kubota

Homeland (2014)

Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire village is abandoned after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, but Jiro returns there to live. Before long, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nao Kubota
CAST:  Kenichi Matsuyama  •  Seiyo Uchino  •  Yûko Tanaka  •  Sakura Ando

Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire village is abandoned after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, but Jiro returns there to live. Before long, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nao Kubota
CAST:  Kenichi Matsuyama  •  Seiyo Uchino  •  Yûko Tanaka  •  Sakura Ando

Thousand and One Nights (2022)

Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing village, and continues to search tirelessly for her husband. One day she meets Nami, whose husband has also disappeared.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nao Kubota
CAST:  Yûko Tanaka  •  Machiko Ono  •  Dankan  •  Masanobu Ando

Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing village, and continues to search tirelessly for her husband. One day she meets Nami, whose husband has also disappeared.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nao Kubota
CAST:  Yûko Tanaka  •  Machiko Ono  •  Dankan  •  Masanobu Ando