Little Towa lives with his parents Satsuki and Yuichi in a coastal town on Nagashima. Yuichi is a fisherman, Satsuki runs a restaurant. What Towa doesn’t know is that he is adopted. As a baby, he was abandoned in an internet café, completely emaciated. While his new parents are secretly fighting for custody of him and want to protect him from his past, the family’s happiness begins to falter. Satsuki and Yuichi aren’t the only ones who are worried about Towa’s future.
Eriko Hatano
A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death, until they reconnect over the very same dance.
Naoko Takeda
Mika, who grew up in an orphanage, having been abandoned soon after birth, begins to look for her mother Naoko. Finding Naoko living happily with her husband and teenage daughter Ayano, she continues to watch from afar...
On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.
Kazuko Yoshida
Один за другим в небольшом городке начинают исчезать дети. Именно тогда всплывают слухи о женщине с разрезанным ртом, которая вселяла страх в этот город более тридцати лет назад. Два учителя начинают собственное расследование этих загадочных слухов в надежде отыскать пропавших детей.
Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.
Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not as they seem.
Prisoner Wife
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
Satomi
A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy, Yasuo (Sora Toma), convinces him to join the choir.
Noodle Shop Waitress
Экзистенциальная сказка для независимого коммивояжера. Два торговца предметами искусства попадают в лабиринт ливерпульского отеля, в котором, похоже, почти отсутствует персонал. Они выходят на набережную, где рассуждают о политике, еде, собаках и международном положении. В поисках приличного ресторана они осознают, что безнадежно заблудились и это уже не Ливерпуль, а Роттердам, Гонконг, Токио. То, что начиналось как комедия положений, заканчивается грандиозной притчей в духе Бунюэля и Ходоровского.
Riko
The film centers on Riko Murakami, a tough-as-nails detective who is also the single mother of a young boy. At work, she has hit a wall investigating a grisly murder in a hotel room. In her private life, she sweats her son's impeding "park debut" -- when she introduces her son and herself to the young mothers of her neighborhood. Most give her strange almost hostile looks except Sachiko (Keiko Unno), who says her kid is in the hospital. While her son gambles about the playground, Riko and Sachiko exchange child-rearing war stories and soon become friends. Then she learns that the prime suspect of her case is none other than Sachiko's husband. Moreover, she learns that Sachiko's son was in fact the center of a kidnapping case several years ago and the child has been long thought of as dead. Her husband and the detective in charge of child's case both have their own secrets, and soon Riko finds herself and her son threatened.
Ran
Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate Noguchi, who's now a member of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, and just finished cutting his little finger off.
An unemployed man trying to steal from a convenience store, and the store clerk catches him in the act. the thief runs away with the store-clerk right after him. All the while, the store clerk is in trouble with a low-rank yakuza. Along the chase for the thief, they catch the eye of the Yakuza who's been looking for the convenience store clerk.
Yuki Takei
Серийный убийца нагоняет страх на улицы Токио. Каждый понедельник ровно в шесть часов вечера молодую женщину убивают, вприскивая ей яд во время давки в вагоне метро. Чтобы помочь следствию полиция призывает к расследованию профессионального психиатра — Сетсуко Суму. Её специализация — проникать в сознание злоумышлиника используя практически парапсихологические методы. Полиция выходит на след преступника, который с одной стороны ведет к буддистской секте «Последняя правда», а с другой — к психиатрической лечебнице доктора Рея Аку, где несколько членов секты против их воли подвергаются лечению весьма сомнительными методами. Сетсуко когда-то была знакома с Аку, и чем больше она выясняет о происходящем, тем больше начинает подозревать насколько глубоко во все это ввязан ее бывший любовник.
Megumi Hikiji
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.
