A university student attends a Japanese tea ceremony near her house with her cousin. There she has the Japanese tea ceremony in her life and it's there for her during moments when she is sad or happy.
Social & External
The people behind it
Haru Kuroki
Noriko
Kirin Kiki
Teacher Takeda
Mikako Tabe
Michiko
Mayu Tsuruta
Yukino
Shingo Tsurumi
Noriko's Father
Megumi Takizawa
Yumiko
Saya Kawamura
Sanae
Mayu Harada
Tadokoro
Mizuki Yamashita
Hitomi
Chihiro Okamoto
Noriko's Brother
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The last movie of a four-part finale of Tamayura.
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The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
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An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
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