和樂

An urban Japanese couple decide to move to the country.

In 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.

Sachie opens a rice ball diner in Helsinki, attracting customers and a group of neighborhood women. The story explores the origins of rice balls in Finland.

Taeko 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.

The highly disciplined human resources manager Taro Onizuka starts to heal and change as he raises the kitten he found in a park.

Leo 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.

Nishimura 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!

A Japanese separated mother and her daughter reunite in a small village in Thailand.

After a bad breakup, a young woman returns to her hometown and opens a menuless restaurant.

Ray, 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.

Rui 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.

Takako (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.

Peaceful life of different people in Kyoto.

The 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.

Young 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.

A single woman runs a rent-a-cat service to provide companions for lonely people.

Movie describes people who are enthusiastic to make refreshing tea. The background of the movie is set in Usuki, Oita.

"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.

As 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.

Seven 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.

A story set in a café situated along a small cape and run by an elderly woman named Etsuko and aided her nephew Koji.

Ichiko 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.

Two 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.

Misaki 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.