Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his cat Tama. Daikichi was born and raised on the small island and enjoys relaxing days with his childhood friends including Iwao and his cat Tama. Daikichi has a son Tsuyoshi who lives in Tokyo. Tsuyoshi worries a bit about his father living alone on the island, but Daikichi is content with his life. After his close friend passes away, Daikichi worries about his physical condition. His daily life begins to change. Based on manga series "Neko to Jiichan"
Tae
The shock of her fiance's sudden dissolution of their relationship causes university student, Miki, to lose her voice. While recuperating in a hospital in her hometown of Hakodate, she learns of the tragic life of her deceased mother, Kaoru, from her grandmother.
Teacher Hashimoto
A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to know if her policy will pay out. Concerned about her safety, the agent visits her house only to find that her young son has hanged himself. As he investigates further, more and more people connected with this family start having "accidents," and if he's not careful, he might be next.
Asylum nurse
The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code granting diminished responsibility to the mentally impaired.
The cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of their own involvement in sokaiya gangster practices.
Middle-aged Mother-in-law
Такудзи находится в коме после аварии в горах. Его соседи приезжают к нему в гости.
Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II
Fumie Shimayo
A man in hospital has a weird and sexy conversation with a woman in the next bed, whom he cannot see. He later discovers she is in her sixties. They meet several more times and, each time, she is younger.
Сюхей — служащий компании и живёт с семьёй в обычной многоэтажке. Не имея малейшей возможности купить свой дом, он однажды видит в поезде объявление, где одна строительная компания предлагает любой семье пожить год в шикарном доме в качестве идеальной семьи. После чего дом переходит в собственность этой семьи. Его жена Рёко принимает участие, и их выбирают в качестве идеальной семьи. Одно условие — дом каждый день должен принимать посетителей, среди которых можно встретить молодые пары, издевающиеся над ними, или пожилые пары, приходящие провести свободное время. Семью донимают и завистливыми звонками. На всех членов семьи внезапно обрушивается масса неприятностей…
University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has leukaemia and has only 6 months to live.
Osamu's wife
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1970, Uemura also accomplished several "firsts". He was the first man to reach the North Pole solo, climb Denali solo, and float down the Amazon river solo. In the film, Uemura returns to Tokyo after a stint in Siorapaluk in Northern Greenland. In Tokyo, he reconnects with an old friend and, over coffee, shares his life story - from his days as a college dropout to his successful expedition to the top of Everest.
Kayako's Aunt
A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.
Youth suspense movie.
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
Однажды в квартиру Синсаку неизвестная женщина приводит маленького мальчика и говорит, что мальчик, возможно, его сын. По словам женщины, она соседка некой Акэми, которая, оставив ей ненадолго ребёнка, сбежала с любовником за границу, после чего прислала письмо, в котором сообщила, что отцом ребёнка может быть один из пяти перечисленных ею мужчин, среди которых Синсаку оказался единственным, кто жил в Токио. Синсаку вместе со своей девушкой отправляется в путешествие на поиски настоящего отца мальчика.
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's father dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a kind Korean and a Harley-riding yakuza.
Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a former friend, persuades Yoshioka to meet with Mitsu while she plots to blackmail Yoshioka by photographing the meeting to break up Mariko and Yoshioka.
Tokiko
О любви двух бедных молодых людей, Мицуко и Кантаро, которые в борьбе за существование попадают в сложные жизненные ситуации, о том, как смерть Мицуко, страдавшей лучевой болезнью, разъединяет влюблённых.
