The Lover
When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never explained -- the relationships among the men (whom she calls A. B and C) keep shifting in ways that redefine power and sex.
A Girl on the Shore
Keisuke Isobe and Koume Satou live a rather dull life. But when Koume's crush breaks her heart, their situation becomes quite unordinary. She starts a "no-strings-attached" relationship with Keisuke, whom she had previously rejected, both finding solace in the other in order to fill the emotional voids in their lives.
Blue
An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan.
Nabbie's Love
Nanako returns to her hometown on the tiny island of Aguni to meet her grandmother Nabbie. However, when Nanako's ferry arrives, it is also carrying Nabbie's former lover, who has returned to Aguni after a long absence.
You've Got a Friend
Yoshio is a man who works for the city's water department and live with his mother. He regularly visits to the SM Queen Miho, but he still cannot forget the legendary SM Queen Yukiko.
Lost Paradise
Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. Together they find the passion no longer present in their marriages.
Wonderful Paradise
In consequence of his professional mistakes and declining career, Shuji and his family, the Sasaya’s, are forced to leave the wealthy suburb of Tokyo. The move is slow, long and heartbreaking, and the two Sasaya children, an old teenager and a young adult, unwittingly turn the grieving process into an exuberant and unpredictable farewell party!
2 Women
Modeled on Setouchi Jakucho, Inoue Mitsuharu, and his wife, 2 women depicts the special relationship between a man and two women, based on the novel by Inoue Areno, the eldest daughter of Inoue.
Ritual
A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.
Shizukana ame
A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized, however, by a car accident on a rainy day after they go out together, and wakes up with short term memory loss, where she cannot remember anything beyond the present day. Yukisuke tries to live close to her as before but the lack of collective memory starts to stagger him.
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Atsushi Ueda
Director
Seina Nakata
as
Keiko Kobayashi
Yuzu Aoki
as
Keisuke Isobe
Jun Murakami
as
Keisuke's father
Ruka Ishikawa
as
Koume Sato
Mikako Ichikawa
as
Kayako Kirishima
Manami Konishi
as
Masami Endo
Kenzô Kawarasaki
as
Teacher of world history
Tomi Taira
as
Agarikinjo, Nabbie
Naomi Nishida
as
Agarikinjo, Nanako
Masao Yoshii
as
Setsuko Karasuma
as
Mother's Yoshio
Yoshino Kimura
as
Chika / Shoichiro's daughter
Hitomi Kuroki
as
Rinko / calligraphy teacher
Kôji Yakusho
as
Shoichiro Kuki / editor
Masashi Yamamoto
Director
Mayu Ozawa
as
Akane Sasaya
Kaho Minami
as
Akiko
Akira Emoto
as
Cho-san
Shinobu Terajima
as
Miharu
Mitsuko Oka
as
Saka Shiraki
Kengo Kôra
as
Shinji Kohiyama
Hideaki Anno
Director
Shunji Iwai
as
Director
Suzuki Matsuo
as
Man
Megumi Hayashibara
as
Woman
Masato Hagiwara
as
Kanji Furutachi
as
Doctor
Denden
as
Professor
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