Ryoko Yamamoto

Mari's quiet everyday life falls apart when she meets a mysterious boy. Her uncle returns after a long absence and tells her that earth is under alien control and that Mari is half human and half alien, while the strange boy confesses that he is trying to escape because he has stolen the key to liberate human beings from Mari's alien uncle. Mari, who only half believes their stories, meets her sister though she is not supposed to have one. Where is Mari heading for in her upside-down life?

Here is a couple who have their wedding close at hand. In the middle of the celebration party where their friends get together, it is accidentally exposed that the prospective groom had an affair in the past.

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.

As people pass by the busy station square, a man wearing a white shirt and a pair of black slacks is standing next to an automatic photo stand. Then a smart, good looking woman passes his side before entering a cafe. The man seems to know the woman. The man follows her in to the cafe. Just a short ten minute conversation over a cup of coffee, shared by the two.