Suon Kan
Nacimiento : 1959-07-24, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Kakuta
Una mujer no ceja en la búsqueda de su hijo tras una devastadora catástrofe, hasta que se da cuenta de que ha muerto y está atrapada en un mundo de almas atormentadas.
Saburo Tajima
Kanae's husband disappeared without a trace while on a union trip. Though usually headstrong and independent, the woman becomes plagued with worry over what happened to him, and is unable to move on with her life. Thus, Kanae decides to hire a private investigator, and keeps running the public bathhouse to the best of her abilities. As he tries to figure out the truth about her husband, Kanae must deal with the stress from a work-intensive job, meddlesome neighbors, and recurring nightmares in which she is drowning.
Toyoshima Tetsuya
Una historia de la familia yakuza de 1999 a 2019. El padre de Kenji Yamamoto (Gou Ayano) murió por usar una droga estimulante. Su vida cayó en la desesperación. Kenji Yamamoto luego se unió a un sindicato del crimen. Allí, conoce al jefe de la pandilla, Hiroshi Shibasaki (Hiroshi Tachi). Hiroshi Shibasaki se acerca a Kenji Yamamoto y desarrollaron una relación como padre e hijo. A medida que pasa el tiempo, Kenji Yamamoto tiene su propia familia.
Shota Iwamatsu is a young man, who dreams of becoming an actor. He teaches stage play at a nursing home for the elderly. Due to an incident, he flees with Takara Yamashita, who also works at the same nursing home.
Mizunuma
The life story of a treasure hunter who lives in the countryside of Gunma in Japan. He is pure and kind, but has no communication skills and has a mind of his own. His sole friend is his co-worker. This man has never had sex. The friends find a robot one day. The robot wants to stay with the men. A bond is formed. The men resolve to change their lives.
A Taiwanese girl Yuwen comes to a village of Fukushima to study abroad. She thinks falling-in-love is a stupid thing and the land is unusually dry as Yuwen’s heart because of no rains. Yuwen struggles to speak Japanese but learns Japan culture and relationships from her host family and neighbors. As she opens her heart little by little, rain falls on the small village after a long time.
Tadokoro
Kengo was gifted in Kendo (Japanese martial art) but he quits after a tragic incident. He works as a security guard and spends his days drinking. One day, he encounters a high school student Toru, who has a natural ability in Kendo. Toru revives the spirit of the sport in Kengo and he resumes practice again.
A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.
Store Owner / Homeless / Tsukada / Kazuo Omori
Shigeo is released from prison and immediately beaten up by some old associates, which results in him losing his memory. Kasumi, who just by chance happens to be the manager of a band, takes him in and discovers his talent for singing.
Kenji
En su tercera película, el director Jang Kun-jae cuenta dos historias que son las mismas: una retratada a través del prisma de la realidad y la otra, a través de la fantasía. En la primera, un director de cine recorre una remota área de Japón en busca de locaciones para su próxima película, acompañado por una mujer que le sirve de guía. En la segunda, esos lugares y decorados sirven de fondo para contar una historia de amor o, al menos, su comienzo.
Yoshitsugu Sakai
Tamako graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako doesn't help her father or tries to get a job. She spends her time just eating and sleeping throughout the four seasons of the year.
Genda
Biopic of ceramic artist Hazan Itaya (1872-1963).
En 1973 Kim Dae-jung, fuerte opositor del entonces presidente Park Chung-Hee, se exilia en Japón desde donde continúa ejerciendo la oposición, manifestándose a favor de la reunificación de Corea del sur y Corea del norte. Kim desaparecerá del hotel de Tokio donde está alojado y 5 días más tarde aparecerá sano y salvo cerca de su casa en Seúl. Todo parece apuntar a que las agencias coreanas y japonesas hayan cooperado en el secuestro.
Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for his girlfriend to return from overseas, she requests to enter into a relationship with him for just one year.
Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner with a distaste for crime gangs. When a yakuza boss dies, a struggle for his position takes place between Kaneo's boss Awano and the young Nakahira. Nakahira's men try to extort money from Masatatsu, bringing him in between a yakuza battle.