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Edward, civil servant, flees fiancée Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, 1917. His travels replace panic with melancholy. Molly, set on marriage, amused by his escape, trails him across Asia.

Follows the story of the reconciliation of a father and son who had been estranged for a long time among lost memories and dispersed pieces of lives.

A Chinese man moves illegally to Japan in order to improve his life and gain opportunity. He buys and assumes a false identity at considerable cost and is, therefore, more than happy to accept a job offer meant for someone else. Having forged his way into a new setting once again he has to contend with the reality that the job is preparing traditional Japanese soba noodles.

Toshihiro's daughter, Natsumi is leaving for the distant city this morning. Empty House starts just after he saw her off at the door. He entered back to the house and made coffee just for himself. Suddenly, the door opened. Then he looked back to see Natsumi, who left the house just 5 minutes ago. She said she forgot something.

An innocent young man from China is anxiously memorizing "his hope" in the middle of the noisy crowd in Shibuya.

Risaki is coming back home to her wintery countryside, Yamagata which is 400 km away from Tokyo. There is seemingly unchanging snowy life of her beloved family and home village-snow shoveling, making pickles, bridges over a big river covered with snow, and kaki fruits left unharvested on its tree.