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A story of one man and four women. Tomoaki Chiba has been enjoying the single life since he divorced his childhood friend Chie some years ago. He's now dating a young girl named Ayano as well as an older woman, Makiko. One day his elder cousin Aiko returns after a long absence. She is the very first and last love for Tomoaki... This tragicomic romance depicts an eccentric but earnest love.
Production Design
Mari's quiet everyday life falls apart when she meets a mysterious boy. Her uncle returns after a long absence and tells her that earth is under alien control and that Mari is half human and half alien, while the strange boy confesses that he is trying to escape because he has stolen the key to liberate human beings from Mari's alien uncle. Mari, who only half believes their stories, meets her sister though she is not supposed to have one. Where is Mari heading for in her upside-down life?
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There are a boy and a girl: they're called names such as "fag" and "transman" by their classmates. Their real names are Mikio and Tokiko. One day, Tokiko moves and leaves the school. Ten years later, she comes back to the town and meets Mikio again. Their reunion re-starts their time, which had been at a standstill and the story goes toward the end of their past.
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A young woman escapes from a city in the near future, where people's anger is medically controlled, and drifts away to a lonely island. It is the developer of the emotion-controlling medicine who finds her and marries her. Her memory is erased and she starts an entirely new quiet life as a different person. But an unexpected incident happens; many people get hurt; the truth is revealed; then she falls in love... And this is a comedy after all!
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Based on four early novellas by Noble Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, this omnibus of four short films are by emerging directors from the second graduating class of the new Graduate School of Film and New Media at Japan’s top art school, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai), where famed directors Takeshi Kitano and Kiyoshi Kurosawa teach.
