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In modern-day Japan, office worker Susumu Ikura is driven to despair by his wife's attempted suicide and looks to his family's past for an explanation. Across seven generations spanning 350 years, his male ancestors are each crushed by bushido, the samurai code - debased, betrayed and sacrificed in the name of absolute loyalty to their lords. Tadashi Imai's Berlin Golden Bear winner is a furious indictment of the code and the feudal order that hid behind it.

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In the final days of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his four-year-old sister Setsuko lose their mother in an American air raid on Kobe, Japan. After a falling-out with the aunt who took them in, the siblings move into an abandoned bomb shelter, where — with no surviving relatives and their emergency funds and rations depleted — they must struggle to survive their own hardships and those of a country on the losing end of the war.