Sketches of Kaitan City (2010) on Netflix

Plot summary

In Kaitan, a regional city on a streetcar network, the shipyard cuts jobs. Futa, laid off, lives with his younger sister Honami and takes her up a mountainside to watch the first sunrise of the year. At city hall, Makoto visits the last house standing in a redevelopment area, where Toki, seventy, keeps a cat and a few animals in the yard and refuses to move. Ryuzo works in a small planetarium while his marriage to Haruyo and his ties with their teenage son come apart; Haruyo finds release as a cabaret hostess. Haruo has taken over his father's gas company and worries about the business, while his wife turns her anger on their son Akira. A streetcar driver catches sight of his son Hiroshi downtown, back from Tokyo for business but not calling home.