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In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He can’t draw the extinct wolf well and struggles to develop the story. One winter’s day, Sosuke finds an animal’s skull while digging foundations at a construction site and takes it home. Is it a Japanese wolf’s skull?
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A young woman escapes from a city in the near future, where people's anger is medically controlled, and drifts away to a lonely island. It is the developer of the emotion-controlling medicine who finds her and marries her. Her memory is erased and she starts an entirely new quiet life as a different person. But an unexpected incident happens; many people get hurt; the truth is revealed; then she falls in love... And this is a comedy after all!
A university student named World. She thinks about things in her head more than anyone else, but her actions often run on empty, and from the outside, she leads a dull life. His girlfriend is cold, his friend, with whom he has had a rivalry since primary school, is steadily shaping his future dreams, and the girl he fell in love with at first sight is his girlfriend. When he starts to feel tired and doubtful about himself, he ends up reading a diary dropped by his girlfriend. It contains a story that drives the world further into chaos and spinning out of control.
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Film by Masaki Hanami, 1999. The days of youth that can never be repeated. It's an orthodox story, but the pain and catharsis are depicted in this work by entrusting it to the act of "running."
