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Having failed with his business and gone absolutely penniless, Masao (45) divorced with his wife, and is currently leading a hopeless life in Ibaraki. One day, a mysterious high school girl, going by the name Emiko, showed up before Masao. Every now and then, Masao would be toyed around by Emiko, but little by little he started taking a liking to her loveliness. As days went by, Masao started opening up to Emiko – something that he rarely did to others. However, there was just something about Emiko – something that bothered Masao - that wouldn’t go away.
A third-year high school girl who lives in Kawasaki City. She secretly has feelings for her classmate Shinya, but Shinya dies in an accident without being able to tell her. When she is wandering around the city in her dazed state due to shock, she is invited by a young man (Ishida) to a gathering to hold a Native American ritual called "Ghost Dance" to meet the deceased. Children who lost their parents, parents who lost their children, old men who lost their comrades, husbands who lost their wives, and many other "leftovers" gathered there.
A state of emergency was declared for the first time under the Law Concerning Special Measures against COVID-19, on April 7th, in Japan. It has changed everyone’s life. The film is based on the actual experience of the film director, Mishima Yukiko on April 22nd, 2020, and was filmed by 20 actors.
Rohan Kishibe is a mangaka who can read people like a book. At work on a new creation, Rohan recalls a tale of the blackest painting ever made. Called the most evil of paintings, it used a paint that should not exist. Driven by the events linked to it, Rohan and his editor, Izumi, go to the Louvre in France for answers.
Sarya lives between three worlds: Having fled from Turkey to Japan, her small family tries to maintain their Kurdish traditions. On the other hand, Sarya, who arrived when she was five, feels at home in Japan. But then, the family loses its refugee-status. Life becomes unpredictable and their days in Japan seem numbered. A haunting story about the balancing act of finding your place in the world.
This is Mabataki Made
A depressed widower, a bored housewife, and a gay lawyer all intersect in this triptych of love lost.
Graduate student Aiko has always had low self-esteem because of the birthmark on her face. When her story is cinematized, she falls for the director who accepts her as she is.
Anzai Mitsuho (Tanaka Mei) is an actress who was involved in a scandal during the filming of her first starring movie, which caused a huge uproar and ended her successful career, banishing her from the public eye. Tashiro Ryoichi (Iijima Hiroki), who was filming the making of the movie she starred in, had always wanted to make a movie with Mitsuho as the lead, but that dream has now vanished. A year later, the two meet again by chance, and Tashiro takes this opportunity to talk about his dream. However, Mitsuho has been banished from the entertainment world, meaning there is zero chance of it coming true. Then someone interrupts...
Akemi Yoshikawa discovers that her whole office is stuck in a time loop, repeating the same stressful work week over and over. Together with her colleagues she has to find out how to break the loop.