A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations. Chikuwa is about a writer who faces a creativity bottleneck.
Filmed in a documentary style six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and dismal environment is contrasted against the emotional being of the patients, their visitors and relatives and the outside world, which they will never again survey.
간호학원에 다니는 하루코는 봉사활동으로 타카자와 노인을 보살펴주고 있다. 어느날 타카자와가 최신형 노인 돌보미 로복 'Z-001호'의 모니터 대상으로 선발된다. 타카자와의 안부가 궁금한 하루코는 문안을 가지만, 수많은 튜브가 연결된 타카자와의 모습에 쇼크를 받는다. 타카자와가 위기에 처했다 생각한 하루코는 타카자와의 지인인 노인 해커의 도움을 받아 Z-001호의 해킹을 시도하는데…
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life.
Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to live and work in the geisha house run by her aunt. The daughter of a once great geisha, Mugiko is entitled by blood to train in the geishas ancient art of classical Japanese song and dance.
While performing in a student film, Ataru cuts down Tarozakura, a large, ancient cherry tree. Strange things begin to happen all across Tomobiki: a mountain appears out of nowhere, spring changes to winter, and Lum loses her powers, while those around her act as if she doesn't exist.
