Satoshi Kohno

Sarya lives between three worlds: Having fled from Turkey to Japan, her small family tries to maintain their Kurdish traditions. On the other hand, Sarya, who arrived when she was five, feels at home in Japan. But then, the family loses its refugee-status. Life becomes unpredictable and their days in Japan seem numbered. A haunting story about the balancing act of finding your place in the world.

A história do anime se passa em 2027, um ano após o final da quarta guerra não-nuclear. New Port City ainda está se recuperando do pós-guerra, quando ela sofre um atentado provocado por uma mina automotor. Em seguida, um membro de uma unidade militar é morto a tiros. Durante a investigação, a Segurança Pública da Seção Daisuke Aramaki encontra Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg hacker atribuída a unidade secreta 501 dos militares. Batou, um homem com o "olho que não dorme", suspeita que Kusanagi é a pessoa por trás do atentado. O Polícial detetive Togusa de Niihama está perseguindo seus próprios casos duais da morte a tiros e assassinato de uma prostituta. Motoko está sendo vigiada por Kurutsu, cabeça da unidade secreta do 501 e os agentes ciborgues.

Um drama familiar que decorre num dia de Verão quando dois filhos adultos vão visitar os pais idosos. Os pais, cada dia mais velhos, habitam na casa da família há décadas. O filho e a filha regressam para um raro encontro familiar, trazendo as respectivas famílias consigo. Juntaram-se para honrar a memória do filho mais velho, que morreu num acidente, há quinze anos. Esta é um típica família disfuncional unida pelo amor, por ressentimentos e segredos.

Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor), the film depicts the uneasy life of Noe Isomura (Rena Tanaka) with the difficult family she has married into after her former husband passed away. One day as she tries to brake off a branch of a cherry tree, she is aided by a samurai who she does not recognize but who recognizes her. He turns out to be a former suitor that she never met named Yaichiro Tezuka (Noriyuki Higashiyama) and who teaches swordsmanship to the local samurai. Meanwhile, the powerful new chief retainer of the village enacts land policies that threaten the survival of the local farmers.

In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who lives with her brother and his wife. The offer comes from Nagayo, but Etsuko is attracted to his friend, Akashi.

Em um bairro pobre de Edo vive um jovem samurai chamado Soza. Ele foi enviado por seu clã para vingar a morte de seu pai. No entanto, ele não é um samurai talentoso e prefere compartilhar a vida dos residentes e ensinar as crianças a escrever. Quando ele finalmente encontrar o homem que está procurando, terá que decidir se segue o caminho do samurai ou escolhe paz e reconciliação.

Ayami, who works in the marketing department of an advertising agency, is about to turn 30 and is beginning to think that she would rather live her life for work than marriage. Just then, she meets Kurasawa, who works at the same company, and they soon find themselves drawn to each other.

Breathe In, Breathe Out centers on six, later seven, individuals who have gotten jobs harvesting sugarcane on a small Okinawa island. Each worker has their own unique personality as well as their own issues as they learn to work together...

Twelve year old Sei has hit puberty and is quickly becoming sexually aware, sometimes not as privately as he'd like; erections in school and other inopportune times plague him. He talks about it with his school friends, Kinta and Nyanko, in between their feuding over the affections of classmate Yumi, but can't figure out what to do about it.

Kimura wins a trip to Hong Kong, but once he arrives, he is mistaken as a hitman and is assigned to kill Yumiko, the female successor to the Ota Group conglomerate. When Kimura falls for his target instead, he must learn kung-fu from a local (Yuen) to fight off the yakuza assassin "Invincible" assigned to finish the job.

"Quartet" tells the story of four young musicians as they form a string quartet and pursue fame.