Hiro moves from Japan to New York with the dream of becoming a singer-songwriter. Once he meets the lovely Akiko, however, the lives and the lives...

Since the suicide of his classmate a few years before, a young man named Tatsumi stays shut inside his parent’s house, refusing to leave his room...

Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.