Chika III
When her husband is hospitalized with tuberculosis, Chika has a series of three relationships: with a teacher in her hometown, with a student in Tokyo, and with an aging gangster.
An ordinary salary man, Junosuke, goes in search of his lover, Miharu, who disappeared one night when she handed him the key to her room, and promised to be back in five minutes. She had only gone out to buy apples at the nearby convenience store, because Junosuke has one for breakfast every morning. Slightly drunk from the cocktail he had had earlier, Junosuke falls asleep, and wakes up the next morning to find that Miharu had never returned.
A woman has a fine life with rewarding work, a nice house, and a serious boyfriend in the lowlands of Japan. In walks her long lost husband who years ago disappeared and abandoned her. The wife allows her lost husband to secretly live in her house. More specifically, he lives in the wife's closet. The closet has a peep hole, so he does nothing day and night but watch his wife live her life.
Entre Japón y Corea, Tokio y Seúl, dos personas llevan vidas paralelas: U-In es un funcionario que trabaja en el departamento de reciclaje y recolección de basura del Ayuntamiento. El reciclaje es de por vida, al igual que su trabajo. Aya es una estudiante que lucha por adaptarse a la edad adulta mientras estudia para sus exámenes de ingreso a la universidad. Habiendo perdido recientemente a su abuela y admirando el suicidio de su abuelo al contener la respiración, comienza a fantasear con quitarse la vida. Para esto necesita dinero. U-In es un solitario, con una indiferencia palpable hacia su trabajo y su vida en general. Recurre a Internet en busca de compañía. Aya también recurre a Internet, publicándose en un sitio de contactos personales y cambiando su nombre a Asako. De alguna manera se encuentran tanto en línea como fuera de línea.
Yoko Morita
Infected with Tomie's blood, a surgeon disappears, leaving his daughter, Yumi, to try to discover Tomie's identity and to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance.
Midori
Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. Together they find the passion no longer present in their marriages.
Jeogori Woman
A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.
