Ariei Umefune

Starring Rei Dan, this is the third film directed by Yutaka Mizutani. Riko Hanamura (Rei Dan) is the leader of a local amateur symphony orchestra, which has been active with members who love music very much. However, Riko is not doing well, and she finally decides to disband the orchestra after 18 years of operation. She plans to hold the last farewell concert...

Saya who came to Tokyo after being traumatized by an incident eight years ago. She learns that the man involved in the case has been engaged to her sister and returns home without being able to stand. Saya's radical words and deeds involve the people around him and reveal their hidden humanity.

Four-year-old Yang Yang lives with his single mother in Osaka. He has not seen his father, whom his Taiwanese mother met while studying in Japan, for months. A picture falls into his hands that shows the three smiling happily in front of a fireworks display. The painted picture brings back memories of the happy days as a family. The film sensitively accompanies the emotional world of the individual family members and accompanies worries and moments of happiness with which one can identify across national borders.

21-летняя Асако встречается со свободолюбивым молодым человеком Баку. У них вроде бы всё хорошо, но однажды тот неожиданно исчезает. Через 2 года, уже в Токио, девушка встречает парня точь-в-точь похожего на её бывшего бойфренда. Только зовут его Рёхэй, работает он на обычной работе и обладает спокойным характером. Асако влюбляется в нового знакомого.

Riko, who will begin university in Tokyo in spring, journeys there from Hiroshima in February with her father to find a place for her to live. On their travels, they meet various colorful characters. The father remembers his late wife, and raising his daughter alone. Their fun time together is tinged with the knowledge that it is about to end. Rakugo performer Kyotaro Yanagiya appears in his first leading film role, and rising star Anna Ishii plays the sensitive Riko. The eccentric supporting cast includes Romi Park, Akihiro Kakuta, Keiko Yanagawa, Kei Ishibashi, LaSalle Ishii, and Momiji Yamamura.

Кумико живёт в захламлённой, тесной квартире в Токио со своим питомцем — кроликом по имени Бунзо. Она работает в офисе, в котором механически готовит чай и ходит в химчистку для своего недалёкого босса. В своё свободное время она упоенно смотрит известный американский фильм на затёртой видео-кассете. Перематывая назад и вперёд, она педантично пытается определить место, где выброшенный на берег дипломат с награбленным добром оказался закопанным по сюжету фильма. После долгих часов изучения, убеждённая, что ей судьбой предназначено найти эти деньги, Кумико отправляется на его поиски в США, в суровую зиму Миннесоты.

Реконструкция жизни популярной поэтессы Тоё Сибата (1911 - 2013), которая начала писать стихи в возрасте 92 лет. В 2009 году вышел первый сборник её стихов "Kujikenaide" (″Не унывай!″). Всего было продано более 1,5 миллиона экземпляров этой книги.

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.