Azusa Yamazaki

누가 봐도 아름다운 부부 가후쿠와 오토. 우연히 아내의 외도를 목격한 가후쿠는 이유를 묻지 못한 채 갑작스럽게 아내의 죽음을 맞이하게 된다. 2년 후 히로시마의 연극제에 초청되어 작품의 연출을 하게 된 가후쿠. 그는 그곳에서 자신의 전속 드라이버 미사키를 만나게 된다. 말없이 묵묵히 가후쿠의 차를 운전하는 미사키와 오래된 습관인 아내가 녹음한 테이프를 들으며 대사를 연습하는 가후쿠. 조용한 차 안에서 두 사람은 점점 마음을 열게 되고, 서로가 과거의 아픔에서 벗어나지 못한 것을 알게 된다. 그리고 눈 덮인 홋카이도에서 내면에 깊숙이 자리 잡은 서로의 슬픔을 들여다보게 되는데….

첫사랑 ‘바쿠’와 함께하는 모든 날이 특별했던 ‘아사코’. 설레지만 불안하고 뜨겁지만 자유로운 영혼이었던 바쿠는 어느 날, 다시 돌아온다는 짧은 말만 남긴 채 아사코를 떠나갔다. 우연일까? 운명일까? 첫사랑 바쿠와 똑같은 외모의 ‘료헤이’를 만나게 된 아사코. 겉모습만 같을 뿐 공통점 하나 없는 모습에 혼란스럽지만, 자상하고 따뜻한 료헤이의 사랑으로 아사코는 다시 설레는 사랑의 순간을 맞이한다. 그러던 어느 날, 떠나간 첫사랑 바쿠가 갑자기 나타나고 아사코는 흔들리기 시작한다.

Mutsuko has been living on an island to which her grandmother and mother have restricted her from leaving. To Mutsuko, the symbol of her freedom was Dreamland, an amusement park on the mainland, but she learns it will be closing permanently this year. Meanwhile, Wataru returns to the island after nine years due to a job transfer. A pupil of his deceased father pays him a visit and tells him about a side of his father he did not know about.

Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside school non-existent. But when both girls are drawn to helping an elderly woman, they're forced to interact, confronting their differences and similarities as well as their deepest secrets.

Noboru runs a real-estate agency in a provicial Hokkaido mountain town. He is despised by the locals for his aggressive business practices. His daughter, Nana—a high school senior—bears the brunt of their anger; and yet, she resolves to stay after graduation, even though her father wants her to leave with him for Tokyo.

A young man, involved with a gang of hoodlum exploiting vulnerable elderly men to steal their retirement money, experiences social disenchantment, alienation and confusion mostly due to a lack of dreams and fulfillment of ambition.

Motherless boy Yujin is shunned by people around him because of his weird behavior. Only Naomi, his sister-in-law, knows Yujin's secret extraordinary ability. They have feelings for each other; however, Yujin's ability turns out to be a cursed, harmful one. He leaves home with Naomi... This unique science fiction film portrays their desperate love story spanning ten years.

Yoshinaga, a real-estate agent, has a young female customer one day. She asks him to take her to the apartment where she used to live. When he plays a videotape left in that cavant room which shows some signs of its ex-resident, Yoshinaga gets lost in another fantastic world. After a while, Yoshinaga and the girl come back to their respective daily lives... A pop, colorful, yet at times a heartaching road movie, which leads to elsewhere.

Based on four early novellas by Noble Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, this omnibus of four short films are by emerging directors from the second graduating class of the new Graduate School of Film and New Media at Japan’s top art school, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai), where famed directors Takeshi Kitano and Kiyoshi Kurosawa teach.