Asami Shibuya

Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.

Izumi, Yoichi, and their childhood friends had a secret play that no one could tell. In the fall of the third year of junior high school, the two go on a trip to find a cosmos field. Is it possible to grow up "remaining untainted" without losing anything? The story of Izumi, a girl who doesn't want to be a woman.

50代の人気作家・涼子は、ある時遺伝性アルツハイマーと診断される。それは有効な治療法がなく、発症して3年ほどで最悪死に至るという難病だった。自らの死を覚悟した彼女は、最後に何かを残したいと大学講師の依頼を引き受けることに。そんなある日、彼女は教え子たちと訪れた居酒屋で、韓国人留学生のアルバイト店員チャネと出会う。彼の誠実さに好感を抱いた涼子は、遺作かもしれない新作執筆の助手を彼に頼む。

Twenty years have passed since the sudden disappearance of Amy, who was the femme fatale in her film studies group. Something that Naoko said triggers emotions that were frozen in time for the group's members, who see each other for the first time after a long absence: Asada Iida,Naoko,Okamoto,Miho,Goto and Kizuka.

小さな町工場の社長が殺され、死体が焼かれるという事件が発生。工場を解雇された元従業員で殺人の前科がある三隅が逮捕されて、自分がやったと犯行を自供。このままでは死刑がほぼ確実と見られていた。すっかりサジを投げた同僚に代わって三隅の弁護を担当することになったエリート弁護士の重盛は、判決をなんとか無期懲役に持ち込もうと懸命に奔走するが、三隅の供述が会うたびに変化して、とんだ迷宮にさまよい込むことになる。

Ken, an AD at an infomercial company, and their program host, Tada, are both suddenly caught up in pro wrestling started by their company president, Sakaguchi. To save the fate of his company, Sakaguchi decides to start a new program, combining pro wrestling and infomercials as he sees something special in Ken's wrestling... Aoi, a coworker and Ken's girlfriend, become troubled by not being able to accept Ken's excitement over his wrestling.

Antonym is a slow-burning drama about human connection, told through the story of two women who come together to write a radio drama. Vain and self-centred Aya is forced to find a writing partner to work on the radio script she is developing. Heavily reluctant to collaborate, she partners shy co-worker Sachiko, who eagerly embraces the project. Peppered with coincidental occurrences and failed relationships, and powered by the friction and growing friendship between the women as they work on the script, Antonym is as much about the inevitability of human connection as it is about the necessity of it.