Movies: Murmur

In 2020, the world is forced into lockdown by the COVID pandemic. As remote work is popularized in order to keep the infection rate under control, a young man employed by a company in Tokyo moves to a country town on the Sanriku Coast in Miyagi Prefe...

Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's prize-winning novel. A sensitive drama about the aberrant in a society without regard for diversity, the story unit...

Grade schooler Yuishi falls for his classmate Kokoa after she passionately channels Greta Thunberg in a speech about environmental activism. Teaming up with the class troublemaker, Yuishi embarks on a self-righteous crusade and finds himself in a pre...

Yamada, a good-for-nothing local civil servant who just loves monster movies, is suddenly given a huge mission to liven up the city! What unprecedented strategy will he take?...