La chiocciola

Hyun-dong is a hikikomori. He lives off of the joy of assembling and displaying Gundams in his only space, his home. Then one day, he makes a big...

Matteo has decided not to go to school anymore and stay at home instead.

An anime-obsessed young man fantasizes about his favorite voluptuous heroines, but his sex-addled dream quickly transforms into a nightmare which...

A battered young girl finds refuge in a mysterious button, with unprecedented consequences....

Etsuro Kurosu faills getting into a university and becomes a hikikomori. One day, he tries to hang himself from a hook on the wall in his apartment....

Nida is a single mother who takes care of her anti-social son who has locked himself in his room for five years. The only way to communicate with her...

A calm, empathetic documentary film about hikikomori—mostly young, male social recluses in Japan—and their way back into society through...

It's estimated over a million Japanese live as "hikikomori," recluses totally withdrawn from society. Some hikikomori may even go for decades without...

In the underbelly of society, deep in the hidden crevices of a working-class neighborhood. We meet 5 characters trapped by their circumstances yet...

A lonely and exhausted young woman caring for her ill father must make a difficult decision as his health rapidly declines.

Johnny is burdened with the desire to euthanize his terminally ill mother in order to relieve her.