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- A young boy moves in with an adoptive family who have a son the same age as him. Seo Hae Bom and Jo Tae Seong end up in the same high school class. An unexpected romantic spark ignites between the two.
- After Rudi's wife Trudi suddenly dies, he travels to Japan to fulfill her dream of being a Butoh dancer.
- An aspiring photographer falls in love with a skillful hairstylist. The future stretches before them until a twist of fate threatens their romance.
- In this remake, in the setting of a private girls' school the drama club is putting on the play The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. With drama on-stage, there is drama off-stage with clashes, contradictions, the threat of stoppage by the administration and a rekindled mystery given that the play is actually a tradition at the college.
- A mountain man captures a beautiful, but a manipulative city woman and goes to excessive lengths to please her every whim.
- Survivors in the areas hardest hit by Japan's recent tsunami find the courage to revive and rebuild as cherry blossom season begins.
- The film deals with the life of Chinese writer Yu Ta-fu. Most of the film is a flashback telling the story of Yu's coming of age in Japan and the strained relations between the Japanese culture and his own.
- A man stricken by grief at the death of his parents returns to the family home, in an attempt to face down his demons.
- The director agrees to film the last days of her chronically ill friend, the photographer and film critic Kazuo Nishii.
- A young guitarist lives with memories of his girlfriend who passed away. He feels like he is still living with her as he continues his music journey with his friends.
- There is almost open rivalry for the future position of superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the department's highest position. With it comes power, control and prestige. The candidates are impressive, arrogant, serious, competitive and ruthless. Everyone has an angle and a certain competitive advantage.
- Haneda's first independent film, a project she honed over several years, is a paean to a millenary cherry tree that can be found in the Neo village in the Gifu prefecture. The film deals with the history of this magnificent tree, the changing social life of the community living around it and the filmmaker's memories. As Haneda wrote, this personal film became an act of self-discovery, both a gesture of celebration and mourning, which allowed her to find a new path in filmmaking.
- The year is around the 1920's and the darkness of the demons have arrived. Now, only the people with large amounts of spirit energy can save the Earth. The Flower Division is now going to be sent out destroy the demons for they're our only hope for survival with their new steam-powered machines and unique fighting techniques.
- A man looking to transplant cherry blossoms along the countryside encounters a blind woman who accompanies him for the journey.
- One undercover cop (Agent) lost his memory in an incident while he was in Europe, his team desperately search him dead or alive, 28 years old agent was relocated due to his identity was unveiled.
- In this Traveltalks entry, the symbolic role of cherry blossoms in Japanese culture is explored as well as the traditional Japanese religions of Shintoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism.
- What is more symbolic of Japan than sakura, the cherry blossom? This is the story of Masaaki Takaoka, a mid-twentieth century rural high school teacher, who worked on creating a specimen which would grow anywhere in the world. It is WWII and with his students drafted to war and departing he determines that his students and he would gather under the school's sakura tree upon their return. Only one student lives to return. Masaaki goal becomes to create a strain that blossoms anywhere in the world for the spirits of the dead students to find. It is a tale of daring to do something beautiful in the midst of war, killing and militarism.
- An up and coming boxer runs a series of dangerous errands for a psychotic crime lord for his chance in the ring.
- 3 heroines set out on a quest to end the eternal winter which consumes Gensokyo; however, only one of these heroines intends to stop it.
- A springtime Traveltalk visit to Japan.
- A boy's adventure in the ancient temple where were burned by the mysterious reason.
- A visually artistic animation with no real story. It follows a pair of butterflies as they drift past various beautiful depictions of people and animals.
- Carly works late at night in a translation booth, one of the many booths located in a dark plenary hall of the European Parliament. She practices translating a documentary on Japanese subcultures. Without any specific interest to the theme, Carly translates monotonously. Although she first works automatically concentrating on a precise translation, directing her gaze to the European flag in the middle of the hall, more and more, she becomes attracted and interested by the punk looking girls being interviewed. Blurring fiction and documentary images, this minimalist portrait questions the complexities of translation, set in the European Parliament, the only place worldwide where all the texts used and produced, are daily translated in as many as 23 languages.
- A short film by Tadanari Okamoto.
- A hospitalized man receives mysterious postcards featuring cherry blossoms, and his grandson is determined to find their origins.
- Nanami Ishikawa (Takako Tokiwa) works as an editor at a publishing company. She travels Hiroshima to go after her father Asahi who left home. During her visit to Hiroshima, she learns about the tragic story of Asahi's older sister Minami Hirano (Rina Kawaei). When Minami Hirano was 13 years old, she was exposed to radiation by an atomic bomb.
- Miku is a female high school student and the leader of the soprano group at a chorus club in her high school. She has feelings for Haru, the head of the chorus club.
- It is always a struggle to preserve your culture in a new country. For the Japanese American community it has been no different and at times even more of a struggle.
- An American woman calls her Italian lover and leaves a message reciting his poetry. Poem is 'L'Anguilla' by Eugenio Montale. Imagined of the real relationship between Montale and Irma Brandeis. Montale wrote of a figure called 'Clizia' who was inspired by Brandeis. Shot in a motel room.
- Billie and Dollie are very much in love with each other, and they declare their love under the cherry trees. In later years Billie receives news of his appointment as a cadet at West Point: he promises to return to Dollie as soon as he graduates and claim her for his wife. While at West Point he meets the daughter of the United States Minister to Japan, and becomes very much infatuated with her. The ministry daughter is a confirmed flirt and considers Billie another string to her bow. He calls on Dollie before going to Japan, but they are to be merely friends, he suggests and shakes hands with her. In Japan he receives an invitation to a garden party, and again meets the minister's daughter. She arranges to meet him in the garden underneath the cherry blossoms in the Japanese garden. She coming towards him with an armful of cherry blossoms, which bring to his mind his first love. She turns away, to meet her other admirer, to whom she is also engaged. Billie sees her, is conscious of her insincerity, demands from her his class ring, which he gave her when she promised to marry him. She appeals to Billie, but he is done with her, and she haughtily turns toward the house. Billie is again at home, in cherry time. He goes to the old cherry tree, where he first met Dollie. She has made a custom of visiting the old trysting place in remembrance of the happy days and of the only one whom she has ever loved. There she meets Billie, who asks her to forgive him and take him back to her heart, which she does.
- A report on Japan.
- Pierre, a cold heart killer, has to go to Japan to find his last boss, Okayama. The only way to find him is to go with Okayama's daughter, Mikiko, woman expressionless.