Masayoshi Jônai

The school’s handball club is about to close down. Can social media bring it back to life? Masao Kiyota is a high school student living in Japan’s southern Kumamoto Prefecture. Lacking passion for anything in life, he spends his days like so many youth on his smartphone along with his childhood friend, Okamoto. One day, they upload a photo taken three years previously when they were both part of their school’s handball team. To their surprise, the post goes a little viral. Encouraged, they add the hashtag: “#Handball Full Power” and are swarmed with “likes” from around the country. Amidst the sudden social media attention, Masao and Okamoto set to resuscitating a nearly defunct men’s handball team.

昆虫好きの少年・中村翔吾は母・香織と2 人で暮らしている。翔吾に昆虫採集を教えた父・徹はインドに単身赴任中である。 冬休みに入り、ひとりで黙々と昆虫採集を続ける翔吾はアメリカからの帰国子女・川上花音に弟子入りを懇願されて、昆虫採集や標本の作り方を教えるようになる。 年末、徹がインドから帰国してから、翔吾は大人たちの相矛盾する死生観に気付きはじめる。 徹はインドやブータンの価値観に影響され、昆虫の標本を作ることに疑問をおぼえていて、肉・魚を食べないようになっていた。 花音の母・陽子は昆虫標本を忌み嫌い、触りもしない。 翔吾の祖父・正は半年前に亡くなった妻・弥生の遺灰を人のように扱って話しかけている。 「死」とは何かと疑問に思いはじめた翔吾がとった大胆な行動とは・・・

After the death of his father, Chihiro goes to live with his older half-brother Togo and his girlfriend Satomi. Togo and Satomi greet him with open arms, but Chihiro feels loneliness. He attends his friend Naoya's interpretive dance practice-- and becomes more and more interested in Naoya's personal matters.