神田サツキ
Atsuko and Akira are a husband and wife duo with a daughter and a son. Atsuko is in charge of the retirement finances. She saves from money given to her by her husband and also earns money herself by working part-time. She stretches every yen by leading a frugal life. yet, expenses come up. These include their daughter's upcoming wedding and the funeral expenses of the husband's father. Then, and at exactly the worst time, the couple finds itself unemployed.
In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to catch, so her husband has been far away from home to catch fish. To support herself and her children, Ito carries goods from ships like the other women in the village. Meanwhile, the residents encounter rising prices for rice. The women are unable to feed their family due to the high prices of rice. The women ask a nearby rice store to sell rice at lower prices, but it fails. The price of rice continues to rise daily. Due to an incident, Ito and the other village women step up to the plate.
A black comedy about a man who works out a plan to change his life. In a locked room in a love hotel, an unexpected turn occurs as the thoughts and positions of the characters intersect, each holding the other's weakness while also being held by the other.
Setsuko Osaka
Hideki y Kana Tahara son una pareja de recién casados. Hideki está realmente emocionado por el futuro que le depara junto a Kana. Un día, una misteriosa persona visita la compañía en la que él trabaja. Pronto recibe un mensaje de un compañero, asegurando que la persona en cuestión se llama "Chisa", algo que impacta a Hideki. "Chisa" es el nombre que tanto él como su mujer han elegido para su bebé, pero sólo ellos están al corriente del embarazo de Kana. En cuestión de días, el compañero que transmite el mensaje fallece bajo extrañas circunstancias. La vida de Hideki cambia por completo de ese momento en adelante, viéndose implicado en una serie de misteriosos acontecimientos en los siguientes dos años de su existencia.
Yone Ryotsu
Police Officer Kankichi Ryotsu (Shingo Katori) is back at the Kameari Park Polic Box. Kankichi Ryotsu usually means to do well, but more often than not he ends up causing all kinds of trouble. Like on his way to work he away when he is asked to pay up by a shop owner or cheats an elementary school student. Ryotsu's co-workers Reiko Catherine Akimoto (Karina) and Keiichi Nagakawa (Mokomichi Hayami) have had about all they can take from Kankichi and his boss Ohara (Masato Ibu) is constantly berating him.
A boy from Tokyo moves to the countryside and has trouble adapting, falls in love.
A successful illustrator, Hinohara Takehiro, lives a happy life with his wife Toshiko, who has supported him all these years since the early struggling days, and their two sons. Feeling unwell, Toshiko has a check up one day and is told, out of the blue, that her days are numbered. When Toshiko is allowed out of the hospital temporarily, Takehiro and Toshiko travel to Hamakaze station. The town has changed a great deal in 18 years, however, the apartment where they started their married life is still there. People and scenery they used to cherish and the invaluable memories come vividly through. Starting at the place where their life as a couple began, the two prepare for "the day" while cherishing their remaining time. During the Bon festival, when the spirits of the deceased are believed to return to the living, Takehiro takes his sons to the firework display at Hamakaze and see the smiling face of Toshiko.
Math Teacher
Shaun Boswell es un chico que no acaba de encajar en ningún grupo. Su única conexión con el mundo de indiferencia que le rodea es a través de las carreras ilegales, lo que no le ha convertido en el chico favorito de la policía. Cuando amenazan con encarcelarle, le mandan fuera del país a pasar una temporada con su tío, un militar destinado en Japón. En el país donde nacieron la mayoría de los coches modificados, las simples carreras en la calle principal han sido sustituidas por el último reto automovilístico que desafía la gravedad, las carreras de "drift" (arrastre), una peligrosa mezcla de velocidad en pistas con curvas muy cerradas y en zigzag. En su primera incursión en el salvaje mundo de las carreras de "drift", Shaun acepta ingenuamente conducir un D.K, el Rey del Drift, que pertenece a los Yakuza, la mafia japonesa. Para pagar su deuda, no tiene más remedio que codearse con el hampa de Tokio y jugarse la vida.
Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori was an official selection at the 5th Shanghai International Film Festival and won the award for Best Screenplay at the 14th Tokyo International Film Festival.
Female Fan
Koji, a jazz musician, takes a cigarette break in between sets at a Tokyo nightclub. He witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. For the next two hours, Koji and Linda are running from both the hitmen and the police. Mistakenly identified as prime suspects, they have to solve the crime but time is running out: Koji has to be back to perform in his club by midnight, as a very special guest will be attending.
Kazuko Yoshimoto
Una curiosa historia se produce en una familia japonesa. Madre e hija deciden irse a esquiar, pero desgraciadamente el autobús que las transporta sufre un accidente que provoca la muerte de la madre, no sin que antes transfiera ésta su alma al cuerpo de su hija. Así que ahora ésta posee doble personalidad y piensa como progenitora e hija, provocando situaciones delicadas e incluso hilarantes, en las que se llega a plantear la posibilidad de un incesto al pretender la madre que está en la chica, acostarse con su marido... que a la vez es su padre.
Kodama learns that his old classmate Hayashi is getting married to an idol, and organizes a junior high school reunion.
Customer
Failing supermarket manager Goro hires the energetic Hanako, his old classmate, to help him compete with a new, rival business in town. Soon, Hanako's ideas and energy completely revitalize the store – but not without ruffling some feathers and sparking some romance along the way.
Daisuke gets swept up in a mission that attempts to recover a highly-confidential disc, only to find that there is a terrible trap waiting for him! Before long, his gigolo skills involve him in a heroic battle of sex with his opposing female counterpart...
Based on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969.
Neighbor's Wife
Melodrama about the life of a mentally handicapped young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
Waitress
Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love with a young male college student. The film is less a realistic exploration of gay life than a fairy tale of three young Japanese trying to construct an alternative to the sexual and familial roles given to them by a society turning increasingly emotionally barren.L.
Koji Wakamatsu adapted the Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.
Un travesti conocido como la doctora Diablo nos muestra sus peculiares experimentos con los pacientes.
Un joven depresivo quiere quitarse la vida cortándose las venas. Pero parece ser que la "señora de la guadaña" no tiene intención de visitarlo.
