After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through to his students, until he creates a class project to raise fireflies to fly over it once again. All students, even the reserved girl Hikari (Risako Sugaya), become passionately involved in the project. However, it brings them into conflict with parents and the school, one problem after another stands in his way.
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Bob Harris (Bill Murray) é uma estrela de cinema, que está em Tóquio para fazer um comercial de uísque. Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), por sua vez, está na cidade acompanhando seu marido, um fotógrafo workaholic (Giovanni Ribisi) que a deixa sozinha o tempo todo. Sofrendo com o horário, Bob e Charlotte não conseguem dormir. Eles se encontram, por acaso, no bar de um hotel de luxo, e em pouco tempo tornam-se grandes amigos. Resolvem então partir pela cidade juntos. A eles junta-se uma jovem atriz chamada Kelly (Anna Faris), com quem vão viver algumas aventuras pela cidade de Tóquio.
A large, dinosaur-like monster has risen from Tokyo Bay and attacked the city. As the government collapses into chaos, the people of a rural town in Fukui Prefecture, from whose perspective we see the entire movie, watch as the events unfold on TV. Some decide to run for their lives, some take it as a sign of the apocalypse, some go completely crazy, but most of the townspeople wait and watch, and wonder where the monster will head next.
Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of a strange family that works together to accumulate a small amount of money, while mixing irony and satire.
