Cast: Ryo Amamiya

Direction Akihiko Shiota

Cast Aoi Miyazaki · Seiichi Tanabe · Tetsu Sawaki · Ryo Amamiya

Plot Harmful Insect follows a girl named Sachiko after her father dies, her mother attempts suicide, and her entire class is gossiping about her possibly having an affair with her sixth...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Ryo Amamiya · Aiko Asano · Tadanobu Asano · Toshiki Ayata

Plot It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara Yasufumi Hayashi) hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The...

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Ryo Amamiya · Zenkichi Yoneyama · Natsuki Ozawa · Ginjo Gao

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Ryo Amamiya · Keiko Awaji · Tetsuya Bessho · Hideko Hara

Plot "Mother, are you happy with him? Father said nothing and died quietly." Hiroshi borrows his sister Maki's laptop computer and finds a short message written to the mother who had...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Ryo Amamiya · Yuri Nakae · Narimi Arimori · Kyusaku Shimada

Plot A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in the Triathlon. The story is told in flashbacks as Namiko...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Takuro Atsuki · Keiju Kobayashi · Kin Sugai · Kyusaku Shimada

Plot Yuta, an absent-minded 5th-grader, is sent to spend the summer with his grandfather, whom Yuta's parents think is becoming senile and could benefit from Yuta's companionship. At first, Yuta...

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Toru Kazama · Isako Washio · Ryo Amamiya · Go Kato

Plot In April 1895, the talented young Rentaro Taki comes to Tokyo from his home in Kyushu to enrol in the prestigious National Academy of Music. Hoping to become a pianist,...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Eiji Okuda · Eiko Nagashima · Reiko Takashima · Sho Aikawa

Plot Tanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants...

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Tetsuya Watari · Ryuzo Hayashi · Tomomi Satô

Plot Takanosuke Ushio and Tae Horikawa are unable to forget each other, even though they met and fell in love 20 years ago. They had promised each other that they would...

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Ryo Amamiya · Hatsunori Hasegawa · Tatsuya Kanno

Plot Miyako is a frustrated insurance saleswoman stuck in a major dry spell. She tries every trick in the book, including aggressive flirting, which gets her plenty of gropers but no...