Screenplay: Kyôko Inukai

Direction Nobuhiro Suwa

Cast Shoko Ikezu · Serena Motola · Toshiyuki Nishida · Hidetoshi Nishijima

Synopsis In her search for answers, 17-year-old Haru sets out on a long journey across the country to the town where, in 2011, the devastating tsunami swept away her brother and parents. This road trip takes the young woman, who is...

Direction Hitoshi Yazaki

Cast Chizuru Ikewaki · Noriko Nakagoshi · Yûko Nakamura · Kiriko Nananan

Synopsis Satoko (Ikewaki Chizuru) just got dumped by her boyfriend, and works a thankless reception job at a call girl service. Her only consolation in life: drinking beer and mumbling prayers to a small stone which she has christened a god....

Direction Naomi Kawase

Cast Grégoire Colin · Kyoko Hasegawa · Jun Murakami · Kittipoj Mankang

Synopsis A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand.

Direction Masahiko Nagasawa

Cast Kana Kurashina · Yûta Nakano · Kana · Ema Fujisawa

Direction Tetsuo Shinohara

Cast Yuko Takeuchi · Tetsuji Tamayama · Karina · Hirofumi Arai

Synopsis KENTA (Tetsuji Tamayama), a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named YAMAKI (Yoshio Harada). He invites Kenta to work with him, and...

Direction Kentarô Hagiwara · Takeshi Moriya · Katsuyuki Motohiro · Atsunori Sasaki

Cast Munetaka Aoki · Yasushi Fuchikami · Chikara Honda · Satoshi Iizuka

Direction Misato Kato · Hiroaki Yuasa

Cast Towa Araki · Hinako Kitano · Miyu Honda · Sôkô Wada

Synopsis Kurose Reiji was born in the countryside, and has spent his life believing he can never leave his town. He cannot leave his mother alone with his shut-in brother and demented grandmother, nor can he escape the clutches of Minegishi...

Direction Raita Kuramoto

Cast Yao Aining · Sôkô Wada · Chika Uchida · Mayuko Fukuda

Synopsis A Taiwanese girl Yuwen comes to a village of Fukushima to study abroad. She thinks falling-in-love is a stupid thing and the land is unusually dry as Yuwen’s heart because of no rains. Yuwen struggles to speak Japanese but learns...

Direction Hitoshi Yazaki

Cast Miki Nakatani · Nao Omori · Jûichi Kobayashi · Chizuru Ikewaki

Synopsis The film sets you thinking from the onset, and you'll be wondering whether it is a requisite for couples to share common interests in order to bind them together and sustain a relationship.

Direction Daishi Matsunaga

Cast Ryôhei Suzuki · Hio Miyazawa

Synopsis When Kosuke was 14 years old, his mother died. He spent his adolescence in a rural village and suppressed his feelings as a gay male. Now, Kosuk works as a fashion magazine editor in Tokyo. He meets Ryuta, who works...

Direction Saiji Yakumo

Cast Akari Hayami · Anna Ishibashi · Asuka Kudô · Osamu Mukai

Synopsis A teenager named Noboru Aihara has a lackluster day-to-day high school life until one day a popular older classmate he respects named Shun Miyazaki introduces him to Momose, a pretty girl with a short hairstyle and the willful personality of...

Direction Shinji Aoyama · Hajime Hashimoto · Yukiko Mishima · Masahiko Nagasawa

Cast Eiichirô Funakoshi · Hyunri · Yoshihiro Kai · Reiko Kataoka