Yuzuhara
舞台俳優であり、演出家の家福悠介。彼は、脚本家の妻・音と満ち足りた日々を送っていた。しかし、妻はある秘密を残したまま突然この世からいなくなってしまう――。２年後、演劇祭で演出を任されることになった家福は、愛車のサーブで広島へと向かう。そこで出会ったのは、寡黙な専属ドライバーみさきだった。喪失感を抱えたまま生きる家福は、みさきと過ごすなか、それまで目を背けていたあることに気づかされていく…
Tomako Hiraoka
A writer from Kamakura named Hiraoka Eisei is researching supernatural stories but finds himself revisiting memories from a previous visit to his wife’s home town. Ogura Kako,a shy local woman, is asked to help an actor from Tokyo practice speaking with Kyoto intonation and, after the lesson, he asks her to show him around Arashiyama.
結婚して子どももいる年上の作家・慎吾と長きにわたって一緒に生活している知子は、慎吾が妻と知子の間を行き来する生活に不満もなく、妻と離婚してほしいと思ったこともなかった。そんなある日、かつて彼女が家庭を捨てて駆け落ちした相手の涼太と再会。それ以来知子の心は揺らぎはじめ、慎吾との関係を継続させつつも涼太と以前のような関係に戻ってしまう。
Hiroyuki's mother
Haruna is a lively tomboy in the 5th year at elementary school. One day, while playing with Hiroyuki, a boy whom she has known for a long time, they play a game of putting their private parts together. A sex education lesson given by a new teacher, Yagi, makes Haruna suspect that she might be pregnant.
Etsuko
14-year-old Takuya lives in a rural town near mountains and rivers. His 29-year-old uncle Koji works as a graphic designer in urban Tokyo. Koji's father dies and Takuya is arrested for attempted robbery-the two young men must now face a crucial crossing in their lives. The concluding chapter to director Higashi Yoichi's "boy and river" trilogy, the film highlights contemporary themes like family, adolescence, and the healing properties of nature. The wild but beautiful Kuma River stars as a threatening symbol for the boy's rite of passage. Supernatural beings reign in the mountains above the village.
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.
Tomomi Ito
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.
The story of a ménage à trois between the editor of a magazine, his girlfriend, and his young sister.
