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In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.

A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.

Members of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city's water supply, then commit mass suicide near the shores of a lake. Family members of those affected by it meet at the lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.

Satoka Aida, a 17-year high school student, comes to know that her mothers hospitalization for cancer is disturbing the harmony of her home life. Satoka rarely communicates with her father like in many Japanese families, and without her mother, her relationship with her father deteriorates. Satoka one day finds an unsent love letter written by her mother long ago to her first love. Satoka on reading the letter sets out to fulfill her mothers long lost wish to meet her first love under the Cherry Tree of Wishes in her mothers hometown. But her mothers first love, Shinchio Fujiki is no longer the dashingly handsome young man mentioned in her mothers letter.

On the anniversary of the death of the mother of a hip and happening Tokyo-based photographer, the son returns to his hometown for the funeral. What follows is a return to the past that is more than just a trek home. Old relationships, love, conflicts and memories resurface and collide. Apparently, old perspectives don't wither.

A young medical intern student is dismayed when he is assigned to work in a remote countryside village.

A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.

Ryo is given the job of selling a smoke carton full of ecstasy by a big yakuza boss. While at the bosses place he gets high on both acid and cocain. Later, while leaving, he accidently drops the carton. Later he meets up with two friends and realises he's lost the ecstasy. The three friends drive around for a while until Ryo remembers he must have dropped it just outside the bosses place, only thing is he cant remember where the apartment building was. They find the place eventually but just as he is going in the yakuza boss, who now suspects him of leaking info to the heat is just outside, along with a police officer who has been tailing the boss for a while. Ryo gets chased with a samurai sword by the boss, meanwhile the boss is being chased by the cops. The boss gets arrrested eventually and Ryo gets away. His trip turns very bad and he ends up running the streets naked in winter, crying and passing out. Eventualy he finds both his friends and the carton full of E, and all turns out well.

The story is about an ordinary salary man, Junosuke, and his search for his lover, Miharu, who disappeared one night when she handed him the key to her room, and promised to be back in five minutes. She had only gone out to buy apples at the nearby convenience store, because Junosuke had it for breakfast every morning. Slightly drunk from the cocktail he had had earlier, Junosuke falls asleep, and wakes up the next morning to find that Miharu had never returned.

Detective Hayase is caught in the midst of a truck robbery. Being forced to extend his stay and help identify the robbers, Hayase gets thrown into another situation as Japan's Foreign Minister is kidnapped before the upcoming Asian Summit.