Soundtrack: Bun Itakura

Direction Hiroyuki Kitakubo

Plot In this Japanese animated science fiction adventure, an elderly man is chosen to be the recipient of a special robot, the Z-001, which will act as his caregiver. The Z-001...

Direction Kazuo Yamazaki

Plot Mendou invites Ataru & Co. to his estate for a viewing of a large, aging cherry tree named "Tarozakura", which is to be featured in an independent film which happens...

Direction Satoshi Dezaki

Plot It is summertime, and Shinobu laments not having a boyfriend. She then happens upon a young man weak from hunger, and wearing a rabbit costume. She gives him a carrot,...

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Hajime Hana · Yumi Nishiyama · Hitoshi Ueki · Kei Tani

Plot A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance...

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Riho Makise · Tomoko Nakajima · Yasuyo Shirashima · Hiroyuki Sanada

Plot Tugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. However, a few people are...

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Ittoku Kishibe · Masayuki Shionoya · Akira Yamanouchi · Reiko Nanao

Plot In the early 1990s a spate of hospital films were released in Japan, including Takita Yojiro’s two Let’s Go to the Hospital comedies, Itami Juzo’s drama The Last Dance and...

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Yasuko Tomita · Michiyo Oguso · Kazue Ito · Masahiro Takashima

Plot Suzume moved in Tokyo where she will live in aunt's house, basically a geisha house. She have no interest in any social activity, nor any friendship with classmates. She's not...