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- DirectorRyôta NakanoStarsRie MiyazawaHana SugisakiAoi ItôA strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame.
- DirectorMiwa NishikawaStarsKoji YakushoSeiji RokkakuYukiya KitamuraA lifelong Yakuza, released from prison after 13 years, journeys to find the mother who abandoned him as a child. He is hindered by his gangster past and struggles to adapt to his new life outside of prison.
- DirectorKazuhiro SôdaStarsShiro HashimotoHiroko KashiwagiToshio KashiwagiThe daily lives of people and stray cats who live in the yard in front of their home in Okayama City, Japan, offers glimpses of the meaning of peace.
- DirectorYoshinari NishikôriStarsKiichi NakaiReiko TakashimaYuika MotokariyaHajime is in line to be the next head of a prominent electronics company. He toils day and night over his work and has no time for his family. But one day, his mother in Shimane falls ill, and his best friend dies in an accident. Grief-stricken, Hajime returns home, where memories of his childhood dream come back to him. He had always wanted to be a train conductor and drive the local "bataden" Ichibata Electric Railway.
- DirectorToshihisa KaiyaStarsMitsuaki HoshinoTomoko KanedaAsami ShimodaThis story involves the shopkeeper Suzuri of Kokumondou who sells historic books and Mizuki, granddaughter of the land owner. When Mizuki releases a somewhat cute young spider demon out of a sealed book, the pair investigate the origins behind it
- DirectorShûichi OkitaStarsAyumi ItoJun KunimuraGô AyanoWere people's lives changed by having known Yonosuke?
- 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?
- DirectorMomoko AndôStarsSakura AndôMiyoko AsadaBengalSawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family of an old man asked Sawa to sleep with him.
- DirectorKentarô HagiwaraStarsTakumi KitamuraMackenyuSayu KubotaWhen a musician dies, his spirit can only be seen and heard by an awkward university student. They can switch places for 30 minutes using a Walkman. The student learns to socialize with the musician's old band and girl.
- DirectorTom LinStarsAngelica LeeHiroshi AbeSylvia ChangA woman seeking a quiet life in post-World War II British Malaya finds love and a common interest in gardening with a mysterious Japanese man.
- DirectorRyûtarô NakagawaStarsTakashi FujimuraReiko FujiwaraYoshi Iida'Tokyo Sunrise' presents a young man's journey to face an incomprehensible death of his best friend.
- DirectorRyûtarô NakagawaStarsHonoka MatsumotoDaichi WatanabeEri Tokunaga20-year-old Mio has lost her parents early and runs a traditional Japanese inn in Nagano with her grandmother. As her grandmother gets sick and hospitalized, Mio is forced to leave the inn and reluctantly comes to Tokyo to live with her father's old friend Kyosuke. Helping him at the bathhouse he runs, she begins to find her way in everyday life. One day, however, she learns the bathhouse is on the verge of demolition for the redevelopment in the district.
- DirectorHaruka KomoriNatsumi SeoStarsHaruka KodaKo Leon YonekawaHaruka SakaiAfter the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, Komori Haruka and Seo Natsumi chose to live and film in Rikuzentakata. This work is a visual record of four people who applied for a workshop Komori and Seo devised, showing them visiting the town and getting to know its people and landscape. The opportunity to hear personal experiences of the disaster decreases with time, but this film provides a bridge to new encounters and communication, in addition to including a story written by Seo entitled "Double Layered Town."
- DirectorYûki MaedaStarsRen SudôAmane OkayamaKazutaka MimuraA comedy drama that depicts the conflict between students and their university over the continuation if a long-standing college dorm. Konoeryo, with a long history, is a university dormitory in Kyoto. Discussion on the reconstruction of the aging dormitory begins. Some want to rebuild the dormitory, but others want to keep the dormitory the same at it is now, starting a confrontation between the two sides.