In a transient land reside a mother and son. The son is unable to accept the fact that his mother is dying. This is a story of their melancholic journey in search of each other.
オシャレな花屋「mellow」を営む夏目誠一。独身、彼女無し。好きな花の仕事をしながら穏やかに暮らしている。ラーメン屋の若い女店主・木帆や夏目に憧れている中学生の宏美など彼の店には色んな客がいる。ある日、夏目は常連客の人妻、麻里子に恋心を打ち明けられる。しかも、その場には彼女の夫も同席していた・・・。花屋とラーメン屋を舞台に様々な恋愛模様に巻き込まれていく夏目だが、彼自身の想いは・・・
服飾の道を目指しつつも、フリーターの彼氏と先の見えない同棲を続けている20代の女性。上司との不倫をやめられずにいる30代の女性。ひとりで娘を育てる40代のシングルマザー。そんな世代も育ちも境遇も違う三人の女性が同じ深夜の工場で働いていて……
Writer
半年前、父親の仕事の都合で東京の学校から大津馬村[注 2]の大津馬中学校に転校して来た野咲春花は、クラスメイトからの壮絶なイジメに遭っていた。春花は家族に心配を掛けまいとイジメに遭っていることを隠し、中学校卒業までの残り2カ月間を必死に耐えようとするが、春花へのイジメは悪化の一途を辿るばかり。遂にイジメを知った家族の勧めで春花が登校拒否を行ったある日、イジメっ子達が彼女の家に乗り込み両親と妹に危害を加え、家を放火するという事件が起こる。春花の妹・祥子は大火傷を負いながらも助かったが、両親は命を落としてしまった。やがて事件の真相が露見することを恐れたイジメっ子達は春花に自殺するよう強要。だが、それがきっかけとなって春花は事件の真相を知り、家族を奪ったイジメっ子達に己の命を賭けた凄惨な復讐を開始する。
Screenplay
元刑事の藤島昭和（役所広司）のもとに、ある日別れた妻から、娘の加奈子（小松菜奈）の行方がわからなくなったと連絡が入る。家族を失った原因について顧みずに、理想の家族像を手に入れようと思い描き、なりふり構わず娘の行方を追う藤島。娘の交友関係を洗ううちに、成績優秀で学校の人気者だったはずの加奈子のとんでもない側面が露わになっていく……。
Norie Mikiyoshi
ひょんなことから東京へ一人旅に出ることになった高校生の和也は、初めての東京で財布を紛失し途方に暮れる。そんな彼は、自分に話し掛けてきてくれた女性やトラック運転手・柳下など見知らぬ人たちに助けてもらう。柳下のトラックに同乗して共に旅する途中、母親と別々に生活している少年と知り合った和也は、柳下に代わって少年を母親のところに送ろうとする。
Suzuhana Aoki
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.
Mitsuko Ichimura
フリーターの金子徹平は、朝の通勤通学ラッシュに大混雑する電車で就職面接に向かう際、女子中学生に痴漢と間違えられてしまう。無実の罪を被って示談で済ませるという妥協案を拒み、あくまで濡れ衣を晴らそうとした徹平は、逮捕され、更には起訴されることとなる。そして、徹平と彼の支援者達の長い戦いが始まる。
Chun-mi Kim
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
Mrs. Sasaki
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.
Dumped by a bored pet owner, a mixed-breed mutt ends up with three time loser Yasuyuki, who's loveless, homeless and jobless. Yasuyuki finds solace in the dog, whom he calls Tamura, and uses it to mend fences with his ex, who's distracted by her mother's debilitating illness. A trip to a hospital reveals Tamura's ability to comfort dying patients, leading to dog and master attending the real-life Japanese Therapy Dogs training school.
Bizarre love triangle about a girl, Yuki who transforms into a tentacled creature that feasts on human blood. She manipulates the guilt-ridden Fumio to do her bidding, only for a strange romance to blossom between them.
Misao
After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.
Natsu
Ryo and Natsu love each other immensely. They are also able to feel each other's pain. Their relationship is troubled when Ryo allows himself to be seduced by an office employee.
Natsui Inako
Inako Natsui is a quiet, modern girl working in a laboratory and living a closed and somewhat monotonous life in a small town. From time to time she goes to nearby to visit her lonely mother Wakayama who has been a widow for the past seventeen years. The girl's relatives, particularly Aunt Sadako and Uncle Shuhei, the local mayor's deputy, plan to introduce her to a suitable young man, but Inako has no real desire to get married. She is more interested in the hot mineral springs from where she takes her laboratory specimens. This all changes when she meets Mr Tamamiza, a young divorced man who's been left with a little boy. Her relatives are decidedly against the match. The girl falls in love with the man without realizing that she will encounter a painful conflict between her family and providence, as unexpectedly as the spring which gushes out from the geological fold, driven to the surface by mysterious subterranean forces.
Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama's villa in Hokkaido, she plans to abandon them to be with Ishiyama. The next morning, her daughter Yuka disappears, which throws Kasumi's life into turmoil. Years later, Yuka remains missing, and Kasumi journeys back to Hokkaido with Utsumi, a terminally-ill former detective, and tries to follow any leads she can.
Mia
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
Michi
In a near future where allergies have become an epidemic, music producer Haru half-heartedly dates post office clerk and mail thief Michi. He searches for violent ways to reactivate his life, she dreams of escaping abroad; both volunteer to test a new drug which may provide a cure.
Makiko Miyazono
Meet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning, he wakes up believing himself to be twenty again. In his mind, he has become the youthful young man that he once was. However, reality fails to keep up with his illusion, and everything around him seems to be quite different from what he is used to. So, he decides that he is simply dreaming. As his reality becomes his dream, his unhappy world turns into a life enriched with happiness and expectations for the future. Ayumu is now enjoying his life to the full again.
A pair of friendly coworkers at a rental video store accidentally become murderers. Borrowing a station wagon, they flee with no particular destination in mind.
Drama about a narcoleptic senior-high student, Mayumi, and his relationships with a male teacher who raped him and a female classmate whose boyfriend keeps bullying him.
