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Hiro, an unpopular comedian, lives with his girlfriend Kano, an editor. Hiro starts to distance himself from Kano with fewer live appearances and Satoyama, a seasoned comedian, drags him around. Kano is given a picture book during an interview with an author, Kaminuma. The tragedy of a princess' death in the book illustrate the troubled marriage between Kaminuma and his wife, Mizu. After reading the book, Kano imagines a happy ending by pretending Hiro as the King and herself as the princess. Fate changes when the picture book and reality collide... A love story for the new century.
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Ken, a newspaper carrier attends college without registering. Haru was watching Ken steal a piece of bone from an archeology laboratory, "Never gotten someone so closely". They hold earch other on the street in the mid-night. Just as they begin to live together, Ken gets caught on stealing again. An associate professor, Shikishima entices Ken into his research instead of rebuking. One night, Shikishima comes to Haru to confess that she resembles his dead girlfriend. The lonely journey of lovers accelerates on.
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Kumosuke walks out on his pregnant lover, Fumiyo, and goes to see his old lover, Kiyoko. Even though Kiyoko's husband, Sachio and her sister, Hikaru think Kumosuke suspect, Kumosuke pretends to be Kiyoko's brother and stays in her house unconcernedly. One day, Kiyoko suffers from constipation and begs Kumosuke to suck out feces from her mouth. As Sachio gets jealous for being stolen his part of sucking his wife out, he does the same thing to Hikaru, which causes a collapse of the family. The meeting and parting of strange and sad people. Where the story heads to...
