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- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsKôki MaedaOshiro MaedaRyôga HayashiTwelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.
- DirectorYûji TajiriStarsRinako HirasawaMutsuo YoshiokaMinami AiyamaNear Kawahara, a young man on a bus connives to meet a single mother by knocking over her son's box of crickets. He's Hiroshi, she's Haruka, the boy is Yuichiro. Hiroshi pursues Haruka, and she invites him into her flat. When Hiroshi is not engaged in exuberant sex with her, he's playing with Yuichiro and learning the intricacies of the neighborhood sport, cricket wrestling. The local cricket-raising champion is Anzai, who desires Haruka for himself. Haruka's ex-husband Taro and his girlfriend Kunico are also around - and everyone's paths will cross over desire, love, loneliness, and the quest for a victorious cricket.
- DirectorJohn H. LeeStarsMiho NakayamaHidetoshi NishijimaYuriko IshidaHigashigaito Yutaka is transferred to the Bangkok branch of Eastern Airlines. In three months, he will marry Michiko, a relative of the airline's founder, and though he doesn't love her, he knows he could be CEO one day if they wed. In Thailand, Yutaka meets Touko at a bar and is instantly drawn to her. His relationship with her only intensifies as his wedding date approaches. He eventually decides to break up with her, and he phones Michiko in front of her. Touko is disappointed, and the next day she leaves for New York. Yutaka and Michiko reunite in Thailand and proceed with their wedding. 25 years later, Yutaka and Michiko are married with two sons, but Yutaka still harbors memories of Touko in his heart. Yutaka visits Bangkok on business and goes to the Oriental Hotel where he had stayed with Touko--and finds she is now in charge of VIP guests there. They realize that they still love each other, but reality pulls them apart once again.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsMasaharu FukuyamaMachiko OnoYôko MakiRyota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.
- DirectorShin TogashiStarsKokone HamadaAya UetoKayoko KishimotoA young girl named Oshin is sent to work for another family because of her family's financial situation.
- DirectorEiji UchidaStarsShinobu HariharaYuko HosoeChieko ImaizumiKanou is a bored schoolboy. When a small man appears in front of him and announces that the earth will soon be destroyed, Kanou vows to spend the rest of his time doing whatever he wants to do. Kanou smashes his classmate's head and kidnaps Yumi, who Kanou really liked, to have sex. Never having had sex before, he doesn't know what to do. Suddenly, he hears a mysterious voice from the radio saying 'Use your mayonnaise'. On his journey, Kanou meets a middle-aged cos-player who invites him to a party full of strange people. The police arrives and chase Kanou for his crime in the past few days. He is now questioning Kanou whether everything really happened or was just a dream.
- DirectorMasayuki SuzukiStarsTakuya KimuraTakako MatsuHiroshi AbeKohei Kuryu returns to Tokyo and reunites with his former colleagues. He will be up against one of the famous lawyers in Tokyo to solve a new case and team up with his best partner, Maiko Amemiya.
- DirectorYôji YamadaStarsIsao HashizumeKazuko YoshiyukiMasahiko NishimuraIn this update of Yasujiro Ozu's "Tokyo Story", a retired schoolteacher and his wife visit their three working children in modern-day Tokyo.
- DirectorYutaka IkejimaStarsReiko YamaguchiNaohiro HirakawaKaoru AkitsuA new bride convinces everyone in her family to sleep with her.
- DirectorYutaka IkejimaStarsAkane YazakiAzusa SakaiReiko YamaguchiEvery choice you make can change the course of your life. This is the premise of THE JAPANESE WIFE NEXT DOOR series. Beginning exactly the same as Part One, a businessman's life is almost complete; all he needs is a wife. He meets two women... and this time he marries the rich one - whose family just happens to be a bunch of sado-masochistic sociopaths!
- DirectorYûya IshiiStarsRyûhei MatsudaAoi MiyazakiJoe OdagiriMajime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, 'The Great Passage.' In the eclectic team, he becomes immersed in the world of dictionaries. But the team is overwhelmed with problems. Will 'The Great Passage' ever be completed?
- DirectorKôki MitaniStarsEri FukatsuToshiyuki NishidaHiroshi AbeWhen a not-so-stellar lawyer is in need of something to help her case she has to rely on an unconventional witness for testimony. Will the court agree to hear testimony from and will the witness appear in the first place? After all, we are talking about a samurai ghost.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsShidô NakamuraRenji IshibashiNaoto TakenakaAbout the adventures of Rantaro and other ninja apprentices at an elite ninjutsu academy.
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsKoji YakushoMisa ShimizuMitsuko BaishôA down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
- DirectorTeruyoshi UchimuraStarsAtsushi ItôKeisuke KoideMasami NagasawaThe story revolves around two struggling comics, Takashi Komoto (Keisuke Koide) and Yohei Tanaka (Atsushi Ito), who have been performing together as a manzai comedy duo called "Boso Swimmers" for the past 12 years with very little success. The pair rarely discuss their concerns for the future together, even though they're now 30 years old with little hope of making it big. Even so, they maintain their passion for comedy and start keeping an "exchange diary" as a way of communicating with each other more frankly.
- DirectorYoshihiro NakamuraStarsAtsushi ItôKiyohiko ShibukawaNoriko EguchiSeveral seemingly unrelated but surprisingly intertwined tales reveal how a Japanese band that independently invented punk rock in 1975 is, 37 years later, connected to a comet that is about to destroy the world.
- DirectorTakashi IshiiStarsMai KitajimaToshiyuki NagashimaKanji TsudaNami is a popular actress married to another actor. Concerned about her husband cheating on her, she spends every night in town posing as a prostitute.