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Tomura, a quiet boy from a mountain village in Hokkaido, hears a piano tuner at work in his school gym and decides to become one, apprenticing himself to a small piano shop.
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The Easy Life in Kamusari
Fresh out of high school with no plans, Yuki Hirano is packed off by his teacher and his mother to a forestry training scheme in Kamusari, a remote mountain village with no phone signal where life runs on the seasons and the trees.
The Guest Cat
A couple in their thirties, both writers, rent a cottage in the grounds of an old Tokyo house, and a neighbour's cat named Chibi begins visiting, and then staying.
Sweet Bean Paste
Sentaro, an ex-convict working off a debt at a Tokyo dorayaki stall, reluctantly hires Tokue, a woman in her seventies with misshapen hands, and her homemade bean paste starts drawing customers to his counter.
The Great Passage
Mitsuya Majime, an awkward young publishing employee with a gift for words, is recruited to the dictionary department to help compile The Great Passage, a new dictionary its editors expect to take years.
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
Five Tokyo residents stuck at turning points in their work and lives find their way, one by one, to a community-centre library, where the librarian, Sayuri Komachi, hands each of them an unexpected book and a small felted gift.
Goodbye Tsugumi
Maria spends one last summer in the seaside town where she grew up, at the family inn that is about to close, with her beautiful, sickly cousin Tsugumi, whose tongue is as cruel as her health is fragile.
The Housekeeper and the Professor
A young housekeeper goes to work for a former mathematics professor whose memory, since an accident, lasts only eighty minutes; each morning she and her ten-year-old son are strangers to him again, and he greets them with numbers.
Kitchen
A young Tokyo woman who has lost everyone is taken in by a boy and his trans mother, and cooks her way through the shape grief takes when it has nowhere to sit but a kitchen.
A Quiet Life
When their novelist father takes a teaching post in California and their mother goes with him, twenty-year-old Ma-chan is left in Tokyo to keep house for her younger brother and her mentally disabled older brother, Eeyore, who composes music.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
When her boyfriend tells her he is marrying someone else, Takako quits her job and moves into the dusty room above her uncle Satoru's secondhand bookshop in Tokyo's Jimbocho book district, a place she has never cared about.
Jean-Christophe
The life of Jean-Christophe Krafft, born into a family of musicians in a small Rhineland town, from his childhood and first loves to his struggle as a composer in Germany and Paris.
The Old Capital
Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono merchant, meets a girl in the cedar groves outside the city who looks exactly like her, as the old festivals pass through the year.