Professor Qingtao
Tomokazu Shudo has his first ever crush on Sugina Mayama, a senior student. Tomokazu has troubles confessing his feelings to the popular student, but one day, he is invited to the research lab where Sugina Mayama works. Tomokazu hopes to use this meeting to express his true feelings for her. To Tomokazu's surprise, when he arrives he first sees a big wooden box in the middle of the dark lab. Sugina tells Tomokazu that he looks scared and then proceeds to push Tomokazu into the box!
Koganenash
Tras quedar separada de sus compañeras cuando su colmena es atacada por sorpresa por un grupo de avispones, la pequeña abeja Hutch se embarca solo en una fantástica aventura en busca de su madre, la Abeja Reina. En su viaje, la pequeña abeja hace amistad con toda clase de estraños insectos como la oruga Kunekane o el escarabajo pelotero Poncho que le ayudarán a salir adelante en un ambiente a menudo hostil. Además, al llegar al pueblo de Sepiatown conoce a Amy, una niña humana de buen corazón que toca la harmónica en soledad y que es capaz de comunicarse con los insectos. Tras salvarla de la mantis religiosa Kamakichi, Amy se hace amiga de Hutch y le promete que le ayudará a encontrar a su madre.
Chizuru, a typical Japanese young female office worker, is socially clumsy, poor at romance and unhappy with her job. Being weary from a busy and stressful city life, she seriously desires to end her life somewhere faraway from the city and leaves for deep in the mountains, where she finds one lonely house. Then she attempts to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills in the guest house but she fails.... This is the beginning of her new life.
Elder Goat (voice)
Película dirigida por Gisaburo Sugii (Street Fighter II: La Película) y basada en una novela de Yuichi Kimura. Mei y Gabu se conocen mientras se resguardaban en un granero de una tormenta. Como era de noche no llegan a verse las caras, pero no les importa, porque durante el tiempo que llevan hablando se dan cuenta que son muy parecidos. Al día siguiente quedan para almorzar, y para su sorpresa, se dan cuenta que son “enemigos mortales”; Mei es una cabra y Gabu un lobo. A pesar de ello, deciden seguir con su nueva y secreta amistad.
Mailman
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.
Goro Takahashi
Takayuki Iwabuchi (Koji Yakusho), a former yakuza member with a tattoo of Kisshoten on his back. Although he has a criminal record, he is currently working as a driver at a hearse transportation company. One day, a young man visits the company and asks Takayuki to transport the body of his fiancé, Sawa (Shinobu Terajima), who had unexpectedly passed away, to her hometown in a rural area of Takamatsu, Shikoku. Takayuki decides to go to Shikoku with the young man, However, the man disappears when leaving to take a call while they are stopped at a rest area near Setoo Bridge. Left alone, Takayuki arrives at Sawa's home village after much searching. He then tells Sawa's bereaved family about the situation at her parents' house. There, he learns of the tradition of posthumous marriage, or 'Yukon', from the village elder...
El joven noble Asano decide combatir a Kira, un viejo señor feudal que ha logrado su posición mediante actos injustos y corruptos. Con este fin, Asano se niega a pagar los tributos que Kira le reclama. Al conocer la decisión, Kira pone en marcha un plan para humillarle, empujando a Asano al harakiri (seppuku). Los samuráis que sirvieron a Asano, ahora marginados ronin, prepararán la venganza.
Tokio, 1943. El profesor Hyakken Uchida abandona su cátedra para dedicarse por completo a su carrera como escritor. Los desastres de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) hacen que pierda su casa y viva con su mujer en una barraca. Pero sus ex alumnos deciden construirle un nuevo hogar, al que se trasladará con su esposa. También se comprometen a celebrar cada cumpleaños del venerado maestro. Durante esas fiestas, juegan como niños y le preguntan al profesor: "Mahda-kai" ("¿Estás listo para irte al otro mundo?"), a lo que él responde: "Madadayo" ("No, todavía no"). (FILMAFFINITY)
Mizuta
Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love.
Kikutaro Higure
A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.
