Kenji Aoki

Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing village, and continues to search tirelessly for her husband. One day she meets Nami, whose husband has also disappeared.

Among the most stressful and thankless work done on a film set undertaken by the production intern. It is no different for the plucky Reiko, who is reminded that “Moviemaking is a war zone!” -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother's face, and her father is the only person she has blood relationship in this world, but he is going to die soon. Mayu has just started a new life as a detective at the Criminal Investigation Division which deals mainly with murder cases soon, and has to handle with two corpses of old men continuously. One corpse found frozen buried in the snow and the freezing sea. Soon with a detailed investigation she finds out a connection between the two cases which seemed to be completely different at first glance. It was just the breach to open a history of an incident which had origin back to the 1960s in Aomori Prefecture. Growing more and more as a detective, Mayu has to unravel the mystery of a case which goes beyond time and space and which ends in Hokkaido with a result that no one expected.

A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the welfare and ethical treatment of neglected dogs and cats at animal shelters. The story is told through the eyes of tormented vets who are relentless in their efforts to change the system to serve these animals with dignity.

東日本大震災に伴う福島第一原子力発電所事故によって、先祖代々受け継いできた土地を失ってしまった一家。そこを離れて、未来を想像することすらできない毎日を送っていた彼らの前に、２０年ほど前に故郷を飛び出したまま連絡すらしてこなかった次男が現れる。戸惑う家族を尻目に、彼は一人で苗を育てては、誰もいない田んぼにそれを植えていく。その姿に長男と母親は故郷で生きていく彼の決意を感じ取り、バラバラであった彼らの心と絆が少しずつ再生されていく。

独身で35歳のルイは女手一つで育ててくれた叔母のトバちゃんが結婚するために家を出て、一人ぼっちになってしまう。ある日、怪しげな初老の画家トニー、笑顔を絶やさない雑誌編集者見習い康介がルイのもとを訪れ、そのまま3人の共同生活が始まるのだが…。

1970年代、群馬県の山奥にある全寮制中学“独立学園”。父を亡くして転校してきた道夫は、きつ音のため、級友からのいじめに遭う。道夫はソプラノの声で歌う美しい少年、康夫に出会い、合唱団の顧問、清野に引き合わされる。清野から歌っているときは、きつ音にならないことを指摘された道夫は、合唱団に入部し、康夫と共に地区大会を目指し練習に励む。