Ayami Nakajo

39-year-old Yuko is a high-achieving and proud woman whose career ambitions took her from a sleepy part of Amagasaki City, to Tokyo. When she loses her job due to her “high standards” attitude, she loses her drive to do anything and ends up retreating to her family home where she lives as a NEET with her laidback joker of a father, Ryutaro. For years, the two get along until her 70-something old man brings home Saki, his 20-year-old bride-to-be. When the younger woman shacks up with the two, a comedy of manners based, quite understandably, on a scandalised Yuko’s “you’re not my mom!” attitude ensues as the younger woman takes to mothering her but when crises occur, Yuko truly begins to evaluate just what a family can be.

Apprentice chef Saori Nakagawa suddenly travels to Tokyo in 1964 to meet Ryuichi Kikuchi, a cook. From Kikuchi who devotes himself to cooking, Saori learns what is really important. The love of two people over 56 years.

Haruka is a promising athlete, but she gets into an accident and is left paralyzed from the waist down. Haruka becomes frustrated with her situation and closes her mind to others. By meeting people who view disabilities as individuality traits, she attains a new dream in the sport of paracanoe.

High school third grader Kashiwajima always has an unremarkable existence in the class. Fujita, who is in the same class as her, had such a gentle favor on Kasashima. Hosokawa who spoke to Fujita listens to the story that Kashiwajima seemed to have seen an alien when he asked about Kashiwajima from his curiosity to his friend Nakajima. When Hosokawa tells the story to Fujita, Fujita's favor turns into a true love.

A terminally ill girl, who dreams of going to Finland to see the northern lights, falls in love

Ichijo Raku (Nakajima Kento) es hijo único y estudiante de secundaria. Su padre es el líder del grupo yakuza Shuei-gumi. A Ichijo Raku no le gusta pelear, y estudia mucho: su sueño es convertirse en un funcionario público. Un día conoce a Kirisaki Chitoge (Nakajo Ayami), una nueva estudiante de la escuela. Kirisaki Chitoge es la única hija de un líder de una pandilla rival. Para mantener la paz entre las pandillas rivales lideradas por sus padres, Ichijo Raku y Kirisaki Chitoge deciden actuar como novios.

Hikaru Tsutsui es un estudiante de secundaria tranquilo y modesto que renuncia a la compañía de sus compañeros de clase para pasar el tiempo leyendo manga, jugando videojuegos y viendo anime. Incluso la gente de su escuela ni siquiera sabe que existe. Está contento con vivir en su mundo en 2D, hasta que un día se le asigna limpiar en el grupo de la escuela con la hermosa Iroha Ikarashi y ella confiesa sus sentimientos hacia él. ¿El afecto de Iroha hará que Hikaru salga de su caparazón?.

Nino Arisugawa, una chica que adora cantar, experimenta por primera vez el dolor de tener que despedirse de su compañero de la infancia, Momo, que se muda. Después de la partida de Momo y tras hacerse amiga de Yuzu, un compositor, ¡Nino tiene que volver a experimentar otra triste separación! Con la música como única conexión y enlace, ¿cómo acabará este amor no correspondido? Como los dos chicos le prometieron que se volverían a reunir gracias a su canto, Nino se aferra a esa esperanza y sigue intentando que su voz les llegue. Ya en el instituto, Nino vuelve a reunirse por casualidad con Yuzu, pero anhela ver a Momo de nuevo…

Female students, including Hikari Tomonaga, from a high school cheerdance club follow strict instructions from their teacher Kaoruko Saotome. They compete at the USA Cheerdance Championship.

Utsumi and Seto's daily routine is to spend their afterschool hours just jabbering with one another along a riverbed. Getting excited over trivial word play, agonizing over the content of an email to be sent to a girl, and, at times, talking about a serious problem, the two endlessly engage in meaningless idle talk as if it were meaningful.

Misugi Akira and his lovely companion Maria arrive in Tokyo on a special mission. It seems Akira is there to pick up Ito Kaori, whom he has known since Kaori was a child, so that she can join his and Maria's clan... of ageless vampires! But before Akira can get to the rendezvous point, the one-time doctor is distracted by a woman making a suicide attempt. Finished with that, he hurries to get Kaori only to find her dead... from a local serial killer who fancies himself to be a vampire. When one of the police detectives on the case, Saeki Shoji, starts digging into Kaori's death, the links he finds all seem to lead straight to Akira and Maria. So now the pair decide their best course of action is to try and track down the serial killer themselves as soon as possible...

The year is 2XXX and Keiko Town is an over-industrialized stretch of blackened factories pumping out thick layers of smoke that cast it in a perpetual state of semi-darkness. The citizens of Keiko Town fare no better and walk around their dilapidated town in a stupor of hopeless despair. In an abandoned factory in an obscure corner of town lies the secret base of Hikari Club. The teenage boys of Hikari Club despise the adults of their community and have taken it upon themselves to eradicate what they perceive to be the evil and filth of the grown-up world. To accomplish this, they build a machine with artificial intelligence and dub it “Litchi”. However, with the boys on the cusp of puberty and turning into adults themselves, their own world has begun to collapse around them.

For this 16th Anniversary Special, Inagaki Goro is our host once again for 6 spooky tales based on tales from real people and performed here by an all-star cast. A young man who returns to his family's home after leaving Tokyo finds something else may have followed after him; a young girl dreams of darkness and a small shrine that draws ever closer; a woman with a failed business makes a go at it with a company with a bizarre dormitory, one with a past secret; a police officer receives a call from what appears to be a dead woman who wants his help; a woman taking documents to a food company finds time slipping away without her noticing; a single man who runs a restaurant sees an unusual family living down the hallway from him.

La estudiante Aya Tsukimori queda maldita, y es incapaz de salir de su habitación en la escuela. Mientras tanto, muchas estudiantes empiezan a informar de avistamientos de fantasmas en la escuela, mientras que otras desaparecen, apareciendo luego ahogadas de manera misteriosa. Aya intentará comunicarse con la estudiante Michi Kazato, que empieza a investigar las desapariciones de sus compañeras. (FILMAFFINITY)