Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets...
Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery.
Suzuki Sora is a cheerful country girl from the small town of Bie. She made a promise to her father, and following this promise applies and is accepted for a magic intership in Tokyo, where she will face the life in a big city. While training to get better with her magic, she meets a mysterious boy...
A girl named Ai gets a major record deal to sing a song written by a friend of hers who is deceased. However an obsessed stalker fan slowly starts becoming more like her and tearing her world apart.
A man wanders alone, away from his family, in search of a place to die. He runs away from the massage therapist who is supposed to heal him, and drives into the deep mountains in a car he stole on the road. He abandons his car and walks further into the forest, where he meets a strange young man.
Yutaka, tired of his writing job, is asked by his landlord to save his rundown apartment building from demolition by converting it into a variety store called "The End of the World". Through this, he meets Huma, a high school student detached from her friends and parents, who finds it is the only...
Shiho and six of her friends celebrate their graduation with a trip to the southern island of Europa. After they hear the legend about cursed spirits of people who died with a grudge, the hotel manager and one of the friends disappear and die mysteriously in the night.
Minoru is diagnosed with cancer and undergoes surgery, but it is soon discovered that the cancer has spread to his lymphatic system and he is prescribed anti-cancer drugs. He is soon plagued by severe side effects such as vomiting, skin rash, and hematuria, and begins to distrust hospitals.
Kataoka Junko (Jun), whose emotional identity have been at odds with her biological identity, shares a room with her friend since high school, Kinoshita Akari, who doesn’t know the father of the fetus growing in her stomach. After being dumped by an older companion, Jun now worries she will leave...
