Little Towa lives with his parents Satsuki and Yuichi in a coastal town on Nagashima. Yuichi is a fisherman, Satsuki runs a restaurant. What Towa doesn’t know is that he is adopted. As a baby, he was abandoned in an internet café, completely emaciated. While his new parents are secretly fighting for custody of him and want to protect him from his past, the family’s happiness begins to falter. Satsuki and Yuichi aren’t the only ones who are worried about Towa’s future.
Eriko Hatano
A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death, until they reconnect over the very same dance.
Naoko Takeda
ミカ（於保佐代子）は出産直後に置き去りにされ、両親の顔を知ることなく養護施設で成長する。やがて一人前になった彼女は、自分を捨てた母親直子（滝沢涼子）の消息をつかむことに成功するが、そこには夫と高校生の娘（柳生みゆ）と共に幸福な家庭を築いている母の姿があった。数日間その家を監視していてミカは、ある決意をする。
2007年から08年にかけて人気が再燃し、話題となった小林多喜二による1929年のプロレタリア文学の名作を、「弾丸ランナー」「疾走」のSABUが映画化。出稼ぎ労働者達が蟹缶の加工を行う船・蟹工船で、劣悪な環境と低賃金に疑問を抱いた新庄は、労働者たちを蜂起させ、非道な監督の浅川に立ち向かう。松田龍平と西島秀俊が激しく対立する労働者と権力者に扮する。
Kazuko Yoshida
Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and carrying large scissors, the spirit would approach her young victims and, while removing the mask, ask if she was pretty. The victim’s response would almost always lead to their violent death.
Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.
Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not as they seem.
Prisoner Wife
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
Satomi
1970年代、群馬県の山奥にある全寮制中学“独立学園”。父を亡くして転校してきた道夫は、きつ音のため、級友からのいじめに遭う。道夫はソプラノの声で歌う美しい少年、康夫に出会い、合唱団の顧問、清野に引き合わされる。清野から歌っているときは、きつ音にならないことを指摘された道夫は、合唱団に入部し、康夫と共に地区大会を目指し練習に励む。
Noodle Shop Waitress
An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art dealer (Alex Cox), who specializes in African art, arrives in the same hotel. The two meet in the hotel's abandoned restaurant and decide to set off in finding an evening meal, which becomes problematic immediately when the Brit reveals he is vegetarian. While following their pursuit of a mutually acceptable meal, the main point of the film is their discourse en route to their various attempts at an eatery.
Riko
The film centers on Riko Murakami, a tough-as-nails detective who is also the single mother of a young boy. At work, she has hit a wall investigating a grisly murder in a hotel room. In her private life, she sweats her son's impeding "park debut" -- when she introduces her son and herself to the young mothers of her neighborhood. Most give her strange almost hostile looks except Sachiko (Keiko Unno), who says her kid is in the hospital. While her son gambles about the playground, Riko and Sachiko exchange child-rearing war stories and soon become friends. Then she learns that the prime suspect of her case is none other than Sachiko's husband. Moreover, she learns that Sachiko's son was in fact the center of a kidnapping case several years ago and the child has been long thought of as dead. Her husband and the detective in charge of child's case both have their own secrets, and soon Riko finds herself and her son threatened.
Ran
「弾丸ランナー」の新鋭・サブの監督第2作目。突然運び屋で殺し屋と勘違いされ、警察とヤクザの両方から追われるはめになる平凡な郵便局員の姿をコミカルでかつハードに描く。郵便配達人の沢木は、退屈な日常を送っていた。そんなある日、仕事中に偶然旧友の野口に再会。その日から沢木の日常は思わぬ方向へと展開して行く。沢木の赤い自転車は野口と謎の殺し屋ジョーへの友情のため、小夜子との約束のため、そして自分自身の日常からの解放のためにひたすら突っ走る。
An unemployed man trying to steal from a convenience store, and the store clerk catches him in the act. the thief runs away with the store-clerk right after him. All the while, the store clerk is in trouble with a low-rank yakuza. Along the chase for the thief, they catch the eye of the Yakuza who's been looking for the convenience store clerk.
Yuki Takei
A police psychologist suspects her former lover of serial murders on the Tokyo subway.
Megumi Hikiji
1960年代中頃の四国の田舎町を舞台に、ベンチャーズに憧れ、ロックバンドに情熱を燃やす高校生たちの姿を軽妙でノスタルジックに描いた青春ドラマ。直木賞を受賞した芦原すなおの同名小説を、「転校生」「さびしんぼう」の大林宣彦監督が映画化。1965年の春休み。四国・香川県の観音寺市。高校入学を目前に控えた藤原竹良は、昼寝中にラジオから流れてきたベンチャーズの「パイプライン」に衝撃を受け、高校に入るや仲間を集めてロックバンドを結成する……。
