A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations. Chikuwa is about a writer who faces a creativity bottleneck.
Filmed in a documentary style six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and dismal environment is contrasted against the emotional being of the patients, their visitors and relatives and the outside world, which they will never again survey.
El Sr. Takazawa, un anciano inválido que es atendido en su casa por Haruko, una joven estudiante de enfermería, es elegido por el Ministerio de Bienestar Público japonés para probar el Z-001, una cama de hospital computarizada con características robóticas que supuestamente muestra más eficiencia y habilidades que cualquier enfermera humana, pero Haruko desconfía de una máquina incapaz de considerar los sentimientos humanos.
Tsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. However, a few people are attracted by her beauty and unique character.
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life.
Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to live and work in the geisha house run by her aunt. The daughter of a once great geisha, Mugiko is entitled by blood to train in the geishas ancient art of classical Japanese song and dance.
Cuando un cerezo gigante de la parcela de Mendou es cortado, cosas extrañas comienzan a ocurrir. Una montaña aparece en el medio de Tomobiki. Los sueños de la gente se congelan a medianoche. Lum pierde sus cuernos y sus poderes eléctricos. Esta película está considerada como la más rara y divertida de todas las películas de Urusei Yatsura, aunque en Japón no tuvo muy buena acogida precisamente por ser tan extraña.
