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- DirectorTakashi KoizumiStarsAkira TeraoKanako HiguchiShoji AranoAn urban Japanese couple decide to move to the country.
- DirectorNaoko OgigamiStarsKazuyuki AsanoHôshi IshidaMasaki MiuraIn a small town on the countryside, every young boy is forced to have the same bowl-head haircut known as the "Yoshino-gari" hairstyle. Then one day, a drastic change occurs when a transfer student with bleached hair comes from Tokyo.
- DirectorNaoko OgigamiStarsSatomi KobayashiHairi KatagiriMasako MotaiWhere are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her, and meets Masako, a formal and ethereal middle-aged woman whose luggage has gone missing. The three women work in the diner, interact, and serve customers. A somewhat brusque man teaches Sachie to make delicious coffee, then he returns under other circumstances. Three neighborhood women inspect the empty diner every day; will anything bring them inside? We learn why Sachie serves rice balls; but why Finland?
- DirectorNaoko OgigamiStarsSatomi KobayashiMikako IchikawaRyô KaseTaeko is a stressed career woman who leaves her life in the city for an island vacation. The vacation does not become what she expected as everyone on the island is strange.
- DirectorMika OhmoriStarsNoriko AoyamaHideko HaraNoriko IriyamaRen Osugi plays a middle-aged salary man whose life falls apart when he's laid off from his job, but finds solace in adopting a stray cat.
- DirectorAtsushi SanadaStarsYû AoiChieko BaishôEri FukatsuLeo who is in college and his girlfriend travel to Hawaii, but end up going their separate ways. Leo returns to the island and begins working with, among others, a number of Japanese-Americans. He falls in love with an older woman called Mariah soon.
- DirectorShûichi OkitaStarsKengo KôraMasato SakaiKôsuke ToyoharaNishimura has a passion for cooking, but never would he have imagined the task before him now: He is unexpectedly assigned to a south polar mission to serve as head chef at the Dome Fuji station. Leaving wife and daughter behind for a year, he and the other crew members experience one existential crisis after another in the icy cold. And then they run out of Ramen!
- DirectorMika OhmoriStarsKanaRyô KaseSatomi KobayashiA Japanese separated mother and her daughter reunite in a small village in Thailand.
- DirectorMai TominagaStarsLeon Shibli AhmadKyôko EnamiHikari MitsushimaAfter a bad breakup, a young woman returns to her hometown and opens a menuless restaurant.
- DirectorNaoko OgigamiStarsMasako MotaiAlex HouseTatiana MaslanyRay, a 30-year-old engineer obsessed with Gundam toys, moves in with his reclusive brother Maury, condescending sister Lisa, and non-English-speaking Japanese grandmother after their mother's funeral.
- DirectorTomoyuki TakimotoStarsMaki SakaiMariko KagaTakahiro NishijimaRui is now in her thirties. She is a librarian and deals with idiosyncratic patrons. She lost her mother in one way and her father in another way and was raised by an aunt instead. In a surprise development she finds out that her aunt is not only getting married now, but also she is relocating. There is a hole in her life now, which makes her wonder how her life and days will progress. Life is full of surprises and twists however. She is about to find this out.
- DirectorAsako HyugaStarsRyô IwamatsuAkiko KikuchiKitarôTakako (Akiko Kikuchi) is going steady with the man of her dreams who surprises her with the news that he is married. Hurtled into shock by the startling news, Takako takes up her uncle's invitation to work at the Morisaki book store. While uninterested at first, she gradually comes to like and read books and get to know the neighbourhood and the people who work in it.
- DirectorKana MatsumotoStarsMikako IchikawaRyô KaseSatomi KobayashiPeaceful life of different people in Kyoto.
- DirectorKana MatsumotoKayo NakamuraStarsSatomi KobayashiRyô KaseTomoyo HaradaThe floating clouds between the high buildings, the lines of the taillights under the moonlight, the swirling human waves... Every view in Tokyo looks as if it is alive. Before even she realizes, TOUKO starts to run away from somewhere in the city. As an actress in a fantasy world, Touko seems to have lost her grip on reality. Along her journey, she makes acquaintance with people who carry similar issues. A midnight truck driver NAGANO, who happens to give Touko a ride, is grappling with the discovery of his soul, and his soul is unable to move forward. His escape from reality is to continually move from place to place. A movie theater manager KIKUCHI is uncertain of her life. She has moved to new surroundings but feels more lost than ever. A young job seeker at the zoo YASUKO has no faith in her future. She thinks that the luck is slipping away from her. During the extraordinary time they spend together Touko and the 3 characters start to feel a new awareness growing and discover a natural freedom. Together they feel the sense of change taking place. The moment they find the oasis within. Finally, Touko begins to walk again with lightened steps toward a new beginning of everyday life in Tokyo.
- DirectorYukiko MishimaStarsTomoyo HaradaYô ÔizumiKanna MoriyaYoung married couple Rie and Sang move from Tokyo to Lake Toya in Hokkaido Prefecture to start a bakery restaurant named Mani. Sang bakes bread and Rie makes food. Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, the customers leave in a happy state.
- DirectorNaoko OgigamiStarsMikako IchikawaReiko KusamuraKen MitsuishiA single woman runs a rent-a-cat service to provide companions for lonely people.
- DirectorToshi ShioyaStarsRena TanakaTakanori JinnaiYuri NakamuraMovie describes people who are enthusiastic to make refreshing tea. The background of the movie is set in Usuki, Oita.
- DirectorOsamu MinorikawaStarsKô ShibasakiYôko MakiShinobu Terajima"Su-chan Mai-chan Sawako-san" follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers. 34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings for the manager there. 34-year-old Mai-chan works at an OA machine maker. She is in a relationship with a married man. 39-year-old Sawako works as a web designer and also takes care of her grandmother.
- DirectorTetsuichirô TsutaStarsRina TakedaShima ÔnishiMin TanakaAs a tunnel construction project threatens the natural order of one of Japan's last untouched regions, an old man and his granddaughter Haruna's humble lifestyle begins to influence the outlook of a man from Tokyo.
- DirectorTakushi TsubokawaStarsSei AshinaChieko BaishôAkiko Kazami
- DirectorShûichi OkitaStarsHaruko NegishiChigusa YasuzawaYuriko OginoSeven women of varying backgrounds sign up for a guided trip to a remote waterfall. Expecting relaxation and a quiet setting far away from busy city life, some are looking for a place to clear their thoughts, some to commune with nature, and some just for photographic opportunities. Their guide goes missing and leaves them stranded, with insightful and comic results.
- DirectorIzuru NarushimaStarsHiroshi AbeYûko TakeuchiRenji IshibashiA story set in a café situated along a small cape and run by an elderly woman named Etsuko and aided her nephew Koji.
- DirectorJun'ichi MoriStarsAi HashimotoMayu MatsuokaYôichi NukumizuIchiko lived in a big city, but goes back to her small hometown Komori, located on a mountain in the Tohoku region. She is self-sufficient. Ichiko gains energy living among nature and eating foods she makes from seasonal ingredients.
- DirectorYukiko MishimaStarsYô ÔizumiYûko AndôShôta SometaniTwo brothers work at a small winery in Hokkaido in northern Japan. The older brother is picky and strives for the highest quality to make the best wine possible. He is not succeeding. The brothers are twelve years apart. The younger brother is not so keen and does not have the same focus or passion as his brother. A woman and her RV arrive one day. She becomes involved in the brothers' life and things begin to change.
- DirectorHsiu-Chiung ChiangStarsHiromi NagasakuNozomi SasakiHiyori SakuradaMisaki returns to the hometown of her father, after he is reported to be dead. There she opens a coffee shop on the isolated beach. A relationship with her neighbour Eriko and her children evolves.
- DirectorJun'ichi MoriStarsAi HashimotoMayu MatsuokaYôichi NukumizuIchiko lived in a big city, but goes back to her small hometown Komori, located on a mountain in the Tohoku region. She is self-sufficient. Ichiko gains energy living among nature and eating foods she makes from seasonal ingredients.
- DirectorNaomi KawaseStarsKirin KikiMasatoshi NagaseKyara UchidaBurdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?
- DirectorKeisuke ToyoshimaStarsAkiko KikuchiAzusa MineYukichi KobayashiAfter leaving her career as a stage designer, Mari (Akiko Kikuchi) returns to her hometown to open an ice flakes store with Hajime-chan (Azusa Mine) who has a large burn scar on her face.
- DirectorOto UedaStarsSatomi KobayashiMikako IchikawaKen MitsuishiHana (Kobayashi Satomi), who had been living in Tokyo, starts life in the countryside with her friend Toki (Ichikawa Mikako) and Toki's daughter Toshi (Sasaki Haruka), an elementary school student. It is a life that they are unaccustomed to. Hana is a writer and goes to Tokyo occasionally for work, but realizes anew the merits of the life she has just begun in the countryside. She also brings her troubled nephew Akira (Ito Seiya) who has just graduated from junior high school. The two women and two children are helped in their new makeshift family life by the supportive couple Gen (Mitsuishi Ken) and Shiori (Takahashi Hitomi), who live nearby and give advice in various ways such as how to tend the fields and raise livestock. Little by little, they get used to the daily work. Toki's natural ability to make things also becomes essential to their lives. In the middle of this, a new family member, Tom the cat, arrives. Kept to get rid of rats, the mischievous black and white feline twists the humans around a little and breathes new life into their lives.
- DirectorLisa KudôStarsKirato WakayamaYûna TairaDendenGrade-school student Yusuke's winter break is neither typical nor of what every teenager his age dreams. Having been raised and lived in the city, his father's suggestion that he spends the school break with grandparents on the farm in a village is daunting. It is all so different, new and difficult. Is there a valuable or lasting lesson here for his family and him?
- DirectorHiroshi NishioStarsMorio AgataAzumiReiko KataokaEiji, a struggling writer who wants to open a second hand bookstore in Hakodate (Hokkaido), moves into a house which he shares with several artists. As it turns out, all of the residents, including Eiji, seem to struggle with problems. But soon they begin to have a positive impact on Eiji's life.
- DirectorRyûichi HirokiStarsKasumi ArimuraAsuka KudôKen MitsuishiWhen Natsumi's father dies she return to the forest which she had visited with him with his motorcycle. She meets and decides to stay with a family who also own a store nearby.
- DirectorKeisuke ToyoshimaStarsShûhei NomuraKento KakuKumiko AsôKiyotaka Sato (Shuhei Nomura) is a university student. He is sociable, but he looks like he doesn't have interest in those around him. During his summer vacation, Kiyotaka Sato plans to get his driver's license to impress schoolmate Matsuda (Yukino Kishii). At this time, a yakuza boss (Ken Mitsuishi) orders Todoroki (Kento Kaku) to get his driver's license. Todoroki doesn't show his feelings outwardly. Later, Todoroki drives a car without a driver's license and he hits Kiyotaka Sato. To cover up the accident, Kiyotaka Sato is placed in a car and taken to away. He arrives at an unofficial driving school. The driving school is run by the Uehara family. There, Kiyotaka Sato and Todoroki learn that they graduated from the same high school. They spend their summer at the driving school.
- DirectorTakeo KikuchiStarsMinori HagiwaraRyô IkedaYôta KawaseTwo schoolgirls are class-mates, but could not be more different and, as a result, not friends. One is hip and mean; calculating and a bully. The other is studious and lonely; neglected and lacking care. They come across an old woman who is afflicted with a disease and losing her light. The girls determine to help, but could they and would they together?
- DirectorKaze ShindôStarsSakura AndôAoi ItôMinoru KinjôUmi is a young girl with excellent hearing, so even small out-of-sync sounds give her headaches. Yuko is a violinist from Tokyo who visits the island for a concert. Umi and Yuko meet and a bond forms.
- DirectorKenshi FushiharaStarsKirin KikiEiko TsubataShûichi TsubataIt is Aichi Prefecture and the story is that of 90-year-old architect Shuichi Tsubata, who has accomplished much professionally, and his 87-year-old wife Hideko. They live in a house designed by Shuichi complete with its nods to nature, vegetable and fruit gardens and the knowledge that it is all but a fleeting endeavour.
- DirectorNaoko OgigamiStarsTôma IkutaKenta KiritaniMugi KadowakiTomo, an 11-year old girl, discovers her mother has abandoned her. Tomo's uncle and his transgender girlfriend, Rinko, take her in. Together they tackle the task of knitting 108 of Rinko's special hopes and dreams, one stitch at a time.
- DirectorYoshihiro FukagawaStarsJun FubukiManami HonjôHuwie IshizakiAfter a chef from a famous restaurant makes them a meal with their products, a cattle-ranch-owner family decide to open a restaurant.
- DirectorSôshi MasumotoStarsMiwako IchikawaHaruka KuboNaomi NishidaHaruko is a single mother. She has an unusual living arrangement. She lives with her son Riku, her friend Aiko and Aiko's boyfriend Sorao. One day, Yuko stays at Haruko's house to attend an art institute for the summer. Yuko is the daughter of Haruko's old friend Tomoyo. They haven't spoken for many years prior to Tomoyo reaching out to Haruko to ask if her daughter could stay with her for the summer. Haruko and Tomoyo have an uncomfortable past.
- DirectorNaoko OgigamiStarsNoriko EguchiTasuku EmotoDaisuke KurodaTakeshi Yamada arrives in a small village in the Hokuriku region. There, he begins to work at a small factory which makes shiokara (salted fish paste). Through the introduction of the CEO of the factory, he begins to live in at an old and cheap apartment building. One day, his apartment building neighbor Kozo Shimada visits Takeshi and asks to take a bath in his bathroom. Since then, Takeshi begins to make relations with the residents at the apartment building and he becomes friends with Kozo. Later, Kozo learns the secret on why Takeshi came to the village.
- DirectorNaoko OgigamiStarsTamae AndôNoriko EguchiAkira EmotoA repressed matriarch and unfortunately over-the-top circumstances - a disquieting earthquake, crushing debt, a dying ex-husband, a raging co-worker, and her son's girlfriend that take her to the brink.
- DirectorKatsuhito IshiiStarsMaya BannoTakahiro SatôTadanobu AsanoA spell of time of a rural family's slightly surreal life.