In a large country home, the sickly owner, Emma Blank, is cared for by the household staff. Despite her desperate need for loving care, Emma is a steely tyrant whose demands become ever more cruel and absurd, to the point that she drives everyone to madness. That is, until the day it is discovered that they stand to inherit nothing upon her death.
Antonina, an artist from Saint Petersburg, follows her husband, a political prisoner, to the deep north province of Russia. She starts teaching art in a local school, but she finds herself opposed by a twelve-year-old boy whose brother is a feared local gang leader.
After a toy salesman rescues a beguiling woman whose car was stuck on the train tracks, she whisks him into an epic series of misadventures. Koji Fukada adeptly orchestrates his first screen adaptation by bringing this popular manga to life, replete with his patently idiosyncratic and lively take...
Renos is an old-school waiter with a meticulous daily routine. But his well-organized, repetitive existence is turned on its head after an unexpected and criminal series of events.