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- Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
- Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't...
- A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.
- Wanting to lead an honest life, a notorious bank robber turns himself in, only to be double-crossed by two ruthless FBI agents.
- Described as an experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.
- Dangerous people who make risky choices to escape from their hellish realities.
- Government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be euthanized to remedy an aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.
- Ami, a Japanese backpacker, and Jimmy work together at a KTV. They bond over work and adventures, but Ami leaves suddenly. Eighteen years later, Jimmy finds a postcard from Ami, sparking a journey to Japan to find closure and reconnect.
- Old woodcarver Geppetto's puppet creation, Pinocchio, magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Easily led astray, Pinocchio tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits.
- A woman is driven to shroud her identity, caught in a web of secrecy. As she conceals herself, the intricate layers of her hidden life unravel, revealing her
- In this cautionary tale, three people struggle to preserve their identities as they form an eccentric love triangle within the fast-moving internet age.
- "Silence" takes place when an accident occurs on a foggy bridge and, as a result, an unknown beast is unleashed.
- Shiinya Kazuya died while saving young girls attacker, only to reincarnated into a world of swords and magic. It was a dream come true. He remembers his life and knowledge of Earth, now Cain von Silford, the third son of an aristocrats.
- A nameless man gives up his identity to live with a large cardboard box over his head, to meet a range of characters as he wanders in Tokyo.
- A famous movie producer gives her young production assistant a chance to direct his first film.
- Tomoyo Shiino is an office lady. One day, she watches the news on TV and learns that her friend Mariko Ikagawa killed herself. They graduated from the same high school and Tomoyo knows that Mariko was abused by her father for a long time. To save her soul, Tomoyo steals her remains from Mariko's family. While recalling memories with Mariko, she goes on a trip with her remains.
- A Chinese immigrant get caught up in an international crime ring of human smuggling while attempting to make a better life for her family.
- A talented young cook's encounter with a hungry girl who popped up in his kitchen changes his ordinary life forever. Dora, a summoned spirit and a truly cute goddess, now calls him master. However, he is not interested at all and tries everything he could to get away from the ghostly figure. As fate would have it, when he becomes a summoner by accident, he realizes there is no turning back in life.
- High school student Naotatsu travels to live at his uncle's house. In the pouring rain, he is picked up at the nearest station by a strange adult woman named Sakaki who guides him to an unexpected share house where a life together begins.
- A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.
- Kaoru Fukazawa is a manga artist. His manga series was published for eight years, but has now finished. He doesn't have any ideas for his next work. His situation seems bleak, with his editor seeming to not care about him anymore and his relationship with his wife Nozomi Machida being troubled. He spends his days in despair and darkness. Kaoru visits a business that provides sexual services and meets a prostitute named Chifuyu, who attracts him. They decide to head to Chifuyu's hometown together.
- Kazuyuki Kuga (Daiki Shigeoka) aspires to become an actor. He auditions for the lead role in a theater company's next work. Among the 300 people who take part in that audition, only 7 people are selected for a final audition round. Kazuyuki Kuga is among the final 7 participants. These 7 people then travel to a snowy mountain villa and stay there for 4 days to take the final audition. By the director's orders, all contact with the outside world are not allowed. Soon, the participants begin to disappear one by one.
- Saenome are tasked with sealing spirits that possess objects and pose a threat to society. Known as tsukumogami, these spirits are generally non-violent, and saenome normally seal them after a simple verbal exchange. Traumatized by a previous deadly encounter with a malevolent spirit, Hyouma Kunato refuses to use peaceful methods and gets into physical confrontations with all tsukumogami that cross paths with him. Deeming this behavior unacceptable for a future clan leader, Hyouma's grandfather, Zouhei, proposes that he starts living with Botan Nagatsuki, a young woman whose family is composed of six tsukumogami-lest he be excommunicated. Determined to track down the spirit that took everything from him, Hyouma reluctantly accepts Zouhei's proposal. As unknown groups of evil spirits begin to jeopardize the balance between worlds, the young man must gain the trust of Botan and overcome his hatred for her mysterious family.
- Yumiko Haruno works as a waitress at a cafe that has been around for a long time. She spends her days aimlessly and without a dream for her future. On an ordinary day at her job, Yumiko notices middle aged man Ichirou Haga looking intently at shunga (Japanese erotic paintings that were popular during the Edo period). He suddenly talks to her and asks her what shunga is to her. Yumiko becomes interested in the eccentric shunga researcher and he invites her to visit his home to learn more. After his wife passed away, Ichirou has lived a reclusive life and concentrated solely on his study of shunga. Yumiko visits his home and begins to take shunga lessons from him.
- Aoki Miyako, a young woman from Hirosaki, helps her father in his Tsugaru lacquer-ware workshop. The industry is in decline, but Miyako is determined to revive it.
- Miyu Mizuno and Shuya Shinohara are high school students. They have dated for two years and promised that no matter what, they will watch a movie together on the first day of each new month. When Miyu and Shuya are on their way to the movie theater, Shuya suddenly cancels their date. Shuya seems like he is hiding something and he acts nervous. Later, Miyu goes to the place where she is supposed to meet Shuya, but she witnesses Shuya getting into a car accident. She panics, but when she wakes up she finds herself on the morning of the accident. Miyu keeps waking up on the day when Shuya got into an accident.
- Saijo (Fuju Kamio) is a university student with a special ability. Whenever he sees a woman in love, he can see bright sparkles around that woman. Kitashiro (Nanase Nishino) is Saijo's childhood friend. Kitashiro tells Saijo that she has feelings for him, but Saijo tells her he doesn't see any sparkles around her. This makes her frustrated. At that time, their school mate Yadorigi (Fumika Baba) approaches Saijo, because she believes Saijo is Kitashiro's boyfriend. Yadorigi has a bad habit of approaching guys who are already in a relationship and trying to seduce him. Meanwhile, Saijo happens to meet Shinonome (Yuna Taira). They exchange a diary with writings about what love is. Kitashiro attempts to disrupt the budding relationship between Saijo and Shinonome.
- Four siblings are shocked to learn their adopted brother is actually a visiting alien and his time on earth is soon coming to an end. Will they be able to cope with his departure and also save the family yakiniku restaurant?
- Mysterious young man Miyama has the ability to sense the thoughts of other people. The secrets of his background linger emerge when he confronts the thoughts of Kusaka, his junior in high school, and the past that he ran away from.
- Their way back home from an amusement park. The family members are Hana Kubo (Sara Minami), her mother Mayuko (Yuki Sakurai), her father Shiro (Hiroshi Tamaki) and her younger sister Runa. Due to the car accident, all of the family members were injured: the mother Mayuko fell into a vegetative state, the father Shiro injured his right leg, younger sister Runa received a severe burn on her face, and Hana was deeply wounded psychologically. One day, Hana meets high school student Jun Yotsui (Ryusei Onishi). His mother suffers from a mental illness and he looks for the reason why. 5 years after the car accident, Hana's father Shiro suddenly brings Mayuko home after he informs them that she finally awoke from her vegetative state. Hana is happy to have her mother Mayuko back home, but she soon feels uncomfortable around her.
- The Earth receives an influx of X refugees, who were deported from their home planet due to a dispute. Countries on Earth agonize over how to deal with the influx of these interplanetary immigrants. The American and Japanese governments announce that they will accept X refugees. The X refugees transform their appearance into human beings and live among ordinary humans. Residents in the host countries are unable to distinguish X refugees by appearance and they have no idea if any of them live among them. People become anxious, confused, and afraid of the X refugees and they try to find the refugees who may live among them. Kentaro Sasa is a weekly magazine journalist. For a story, he hides his identity as a journalist and approaches Ryoko Kashiwagi, who is suspected of being an X refugee. He gets close to her and becomes to have feelings for her, but he's not certain if she is human.
- The special relationship between a man and two women.
- From sunup to sundown, Fushihara-san works 'round the clock. She spends so much time there that even the ghosts worry about her well-being. One night, Fushihara-san was working late as usual when a little ghost girl whispered to her "Leave now" - an encounter that would change her life forever. Be healed by the heartwarming daily life of the cute little ghost and Fushihara-san.
- A single rocket landed on the desolate frontier planet Eden. Romi and her lover George, who escaped from Earth for some reason , vow to make this planet their new home, but life on this undeveloped planet is tough. George lost his life in an accident while digging a well, and Romi decided to live a lonely survival life with her only son, Cain, and an AI robot. Romi decides to extend her life for Cain and goes into cold sleep. However, due to a mechanical failure, he has been sleeping for 1,300 years. When Romi finally wakes up, she becomes the queen of Eden 17, a huge town built by new humans. One day, a kind-hearted boy named Kom meets the grieving Queen Romi at the palace. Knowing Romi's nostalgia for her hometown, Kom decides to go to Earth with her, and while knowing that it's her reckless challenge, the two of them fly out into the vast universe. Along the way, he meets Earthling astronaut Makimura, space generalist Zudaban, and many unknown life forms beyond human comprehension, aiming for his home planet Earth.
- Manga-ka (manga author) Sawako suspects that her husband is having an affair. Instead of confronting him directly, she finds a more creative way to drop the hint.
- The life of a middle aged man with autism, Tadao goes through an unexpected transition when his ageing single mother Tamako decides to send him to a group home in the hope that he can live independently. However, the move isn't free of troubles.
- Thirteen disparate young people connected by chance or circumstance intersect as they ponder their place in the world and deal with the pressures and heartaches of modern life in Japan's busy capital.