Tatsuhiko Kobayashi

Mortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is also grappling with the issue of mortality as he deals with the impending death of his ailing father, who has decided to spend his final days in the family home. As the story progresses, Koichi finds unexpected solace from his grief by letting his troubled student visit and meet with his father in the hopes that he will understand the meaning of life and death.

Kenzo was behind bars for killing a gangster. Upon his release, he goes to live with his son, whose marriage is on the rocks. His 14-year-old granddaughter Tamako is ostracized when she discovers that her grandfather is a murderer. Kenzo soon helps defend Tamako from bullies at school. When Tamako stands up for herself, she comes to believe that she has inherited some of her grandfather’s great strength. Eventually, an associate of the man Kenzo killed comes looking for revenge, along with the dead man’s son.

竜馬が暗殺されて13年が過ぎた。新政府の役人・菅野覚兵衛は、師弟関係にあった坂本竜馬の十三回忌を催すため、竜馬の元妻である義理の姉おりょうを訪ねた。おりょうは西村松兵衛という冴えない男と電撃再婚し、ボロの長屋で貧乏生活を送っていた。しかし、実はこの時すでにおりょうには竜馬にそっくりの愛人・虎蔵がいた。おりょうは松兵衛と再婚したはいいが、貧乏と退屈な暮らしにすっかり愛想を尽かしてしまい、虎蔵と駆け落ちしようとしていたのだ。覚兵衛は、情けない松兵衛を見かねて、おりょうを取り戻す作戦を立てるのだったが…。

味の素のCMで息の合ったところを見せた田中麗奈と樹木希林を主演に、林真理子の短編小説「一年ののち」を市川準が描いた、一年限りの恋物語。つきあっていた彼と別れたばかりのエリコは気分転換にと転職しては見たものの、その退屈な日々は以前とあまり変わらなかった。そんなある日、エリートサラリーマンとの合コンに出かけたエリコは不思議な雰囲気を漂わすタムラという男に興味を持つようになる。数日後、エリコからのデートの誘いに快く応じたタムラだったが、タムラはデートの最中にアメリカに留学中の恋人がいることを告白する……。

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.

Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He gives no explanation of his absence and his family asks no questions. It is only through the questions that a young writer named Asakura, who is secretly in love with Hisako, poses of local shop owners, that we learn that Hamanaka's disappearance may be related to the fact that the woman everyone thought he would marry, Tami - who runs the cafe across the street from the Hamanaka electric store - had ended up tying the knot with another man who died soon thereafter.

手塚治虫とともにトキワ荘に暮らす、寺田ヒロオ。手塚が越した後、安孫子素雄や藤本弘ら多くの漫画家を夢見る若者たちがトキワ荘に住みつくようになる。早くから住人だった寺田は、よき相談役で兄貴分と慕われるが、後から来た若者たちが次々に売れていく中、時代に取り残されていく。しかし彼はねたみもせず、静かにみんなを応援する。

Living in an old Tokyo district, Kenichi works at a second-hand bookshop to support his sister, Yoko, a high school student. When Yoko graduates, she starts work at a photo shop. By the time, Kenichi's girlfriend has decided to marry someone else as she is tired of waiting for him. When Yoko starts dating Kenichi's best friend, Makoto , he is strangely resentful, but when Makoto is involved in a fatal accident, brother and sister resume their routine life.

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.

An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.

性格が“ブス”な女の子が、上京して様々な経験を重ねる中で自分の殻を打ち破って成長していく姿を描く。18歳になる森下麦子は片田舎で生まれ育ち、性格のひねくれた暗い女の子だった。そんな“心のブス”を治すため上京し、置屋を営む叔母・胡蝶のところで鈴女という名前をもらい芸者見習いをしながら高校に通うことになる。