Sachiko Tanaka

Asako tem 21 anos e mora em Osaka. Ela se apaixona por Baku, um rapaz de espírito livre e misterioso. Porém, ele desaparece de sua vida de repente. Passados dois anos, ela agora vive em Tóquio e acaba conhecendo Ryohei, um assalariado comum, mas que é idêntico a Baku, porém com uma personalidade completamente diferente.

Narumi Kase (Masami Nagasawa) está com uma desconfiança enorme e não faz ideia do que fazer. Isso porque seu marido, Shinji Kase (Ryuhei Matsuda), voltou para casa depois de dias desaparecido e, misteriosamente, parece ser outra pessoal, mais gentil e amável. O que ela nem imagina é que, na verdade, o corpo de Shinji foi assumido por um alienígena que veio anunciar uma invasão à Terra.

Kanna Seto lost her childhood friend Haruta in a car accident when she was a freshman in high school. Carrying the emotional pain from that incident throughout her life, Kanna is still wounded as an adult. Kanna then meets Roku Akazawa, who also carries a painful experience from his past. When Roku was an elementary school student, a girl who was with him got into an accident and died. Because of that incident, Roku carries a heavy sense of guilt. When they meet, time, frozen since that day, begins to tick again.

Koichi and Atsumi are lovers who have known each other all their lives. A year ago, however, a suicide attempt by Atsumi left her in a coma. Through 'sensing', a type of neurosurgical procedure allowing contact with the intentional aspect of a comatose patient's mind, Koishi tries to find out why Atsumi tried to kill herself, and to bring her back to consciousness. He enters her subconscious, and is told to find a picture of a plesiosaur she drew when she was a child. It turns out that a childhood incident buried in their past will bring their minds together.

Su-chan, Mai-chan, Sawako-san follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers. 34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings for the manager there. 34-year-old Mai-chan works at an OA machine maker. She is in a relationship with a married man. 39-year-old Sawako works as a web designer and also takes care of her grandmother. -san and her mother take care of her grandmother.

Após uma série de mortes em uma escola secundária, o novo estudante transferido Koichi Sakakibara se vira para uma garota misteriosa que detém a chave para o mistério sombrio.

Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments. Now as a young adult Kyohei takes a new job. He works for a company that specializes in cleaning out the homes of recently deceased individuals. With his new job Kyohei meets co-worker Yuki (Nana Eikura). Yuki has also experienced a traumatizing event as a teen and has also shut herself away from the world. These two young people form a bond as they go through the homes of the recently departed people. They gradually open up to each other and in the process to the world. Yet, their fragile psyches may or may not be ready for such changes ...

Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning at one time with the broken part eventually sprouting out cherry blossoms). The young woman lived freely in the mountains after she was abducted as a young child. The couple soon fall in love under the Raiou tree, but become acutely aware of their different social positions & the ramifications it has on their relationship.

Tokyo Sonata é o retrato de uma família japonesa aparentemente normal. O pai que bruscamente perde seu trabalho esconde a verdade de toda família; o filho mais velho que quase não pára em casa quer se alistar no exército de outro país; o mais novo, começa a fazer aulas de piano escondido dos pais, e a mãe, que sabe que seu papel é manter a família unida, não encontra suficiente vontade para isso. De alguma maneira, um profundo abismo aparece dentro da família, e se estende rápido e silenciosamente para desintegrá-los.