Akane Yamada

개와 고양이의 생명을 구하기 위해 동분서주 하는 수의사들의 이야기를 그린 영화

“개에게 이름을 지어준다는 것, 그 생명을 끝까지 책임진다는 하나의 약속!” 함께 살던 반려견 ‘나츠’를 병으로 떠나 보낸 방송국 PD ‘카나미’(고바야시 사토미)는 문득, 반려동물들을 위해 뭐라도 해야겠다는 생각에 동물 보호 센터를 찾는다. 일주일이 지나면 살처분이 될 운명에 처한 동물보호센터의 동물들, 비윤리적인 개공장에서 돈벌이의 수단이 되어버린 개들, 대지진으로 주민들이 떠나버린 마을에 덩그러니 남겨진 유기동물들, 알레르기 때문에, 또 아이 건강에 좋지 않을까봐… 무책임한 이유로 버려져 마음에 상처를 입은 고양이들… ‘카나미’는 보호 센터에서 동물들의 안타까운 현실을 직접 마주하면서 동물과 인간의 행복한 동행을 위해 영화를 직접 만들어보기로 결심한다.

“개에게 이름을 지어준다는 것, 그 생명을 끝까지 책임진다는 하나의 약속!” 함께 살던 반려견 ‘나츠’를 병으로 떠나 보낸 방송국 PD ‘카나미’(고바야시 사토미)는 문득, 반려동물들을 위해 뭐라도 해야겠다는 생각에 동물 보호 센터를 찾는다. 일주일이 지나면 살처분이 될 운명에 처한 동물보호센터의 동물들, 비윤리적인 개공장에서 돈벌이의 수단이 되어버린 개들, 대지진으로 주민들이 떠나버린 마을에 덩그러니 남겨진 유기동물들, 알레르기 때문에, 또 아이 건강에 좋지 않을까봐… 무책임한 이유로 버려져 마음에 상처를 입은 고양이들… ‘카나미’는 보호 센터에서 동물들의 안타까운 현실을 직접 마주하면서 동물과 인간의 행복한 동행을 위해 영화를 직접 만들어보기로 결심한다.

In 2010, a musician, Watanabe Toshimi was planning to go back to his hometown in Fukushima to do farming. His son Toui was going to re-take high school entrance exam which he had failed the previous year. Both looked forward to starting new chapters in their lives. In 2011, Toshimi had to cancel his plan because of the Great East Japanese Earthquake. His hometown was within 20 km of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant. To cheer up his father, Toui who passed a high school entrance exam promised him to go to school every day. Toshimi promised Toui to make him bento every day.

In 2010, a musician, Watanabe Toshimi was planning to go back to his hometown in Fukushima to do farming. His son Toui was going to re-take high school entrance exam which he had failed the previous year. Both looked forward to starting new chapters in their lives. In 2011, Toshimi had to cancel his plan because of the Great East Japanese Earthquake. His hometown was within 20 km of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant. To cheer up his father, Toui who passed a high school entrance exam promised him to go to school every day. Toshimi promised Toui to make him bento every day.

Natsuki, a sales clerk of a bookstore, and Koji. a high school student. Seemingly nothing in common, they have one thing they can share: books.

Natsuki, a sales clerk of a bookstore, and Koji. a high school student. Seemingly nothing in common, they have one thing they can share: books.

A descendant of an ancient tea tribe heads to Taiwan to look for the legendary black tea to break the curse of a tribal rivalry. Meanwhile, in an "underground tea market" somewhere in Taiwan that sells rare expensive tea from around the world, tribe members have other motives up their sleeves regarding the black tea legacy. Each for their own cause, rival tribal members become tangled up in a web of love and hate.

Sakura is a 20-year-old college student who has sex for money to fund her shopping addiction. After her customers leave her apartment, she spends her time spying on Leo, a young, beautiful, and (dyed) blond-haired boy, who works at a male escort service across the street. One day, Leo pays her a visit, and so starts an unlikely friendship. But Leo has a troubled past. He is the son of a prostitute who worked for his current pimp and died before she could repay money that she owed. He himself entered the business when he graduated from junior high school. Though Leo refuses to make love to Sakura (he has a policy of not having sex outside of work), the two fall in love and become inseparable until Leo gets into a fight with Sakura's boyfriend and gets him into a car accident. Leo turns himself in, and Sakura moves to Okinawa to wait for him at their dream destination.