Stone Age

Friday, October 20th - 2:40pm
Monday, October 23rd - 9:40pm
Wednesday, October 25th - 4:20pm

(2005, 109min) North America Premiere
Director: Tetsu SHIRATORI
Cast: Yuki KURODA, Aiko SATO, Rie SHIBATA, Yukiya KITAMURA, Minori TERADA

Masaya Koga used to be a stop-at-home (people who will not leave their room or house for a long period of time). He wants to become a social welfare counselor, and starts working at an organization called “Himawari no Ie (The sunflower house)” as a staff member. The Sunflower house is a place where stop-at-home kids interact and rehabilitate so they can eventually go back to society.

Not long after Masaya started to work, Satoru Yamazaki, a serious stop-at-home, came to the Sunflower house. He has been in his house for 5 years, and his mother finally brought him to the Sunflower house. Masaya, who himself used to be a stop-at-home, talks of his own experience and tries to help Masaya. But things aren’t that easy. He starts to involve Satoru’s family, and things get complicated…