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- A young man is ostracized by his classmates after he bullies a deaf girl to the point where she moves away. Years later, he sets off on a path for redemption.
- 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.
- A slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe.
- Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.
- Taeko and her husband, Jiro, are living a peaceful existence with son, Keita. A tragic accident brings the boy's father, Park, back into her life. Taeko throws herself into helping this deaf and homeless man to cope with pain and guilt.
- Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
- While on a book tour in Japan, Sidonie Perceval, still haunted by the ghost of her late husband, begins an affair with her mysterious Japanese publisher.
- A video game designer's trauma following a fire manifests in a frightening obsession.
- Two young skaters, polar opposites in personality, team up to train for a figure skating duo, their growing bond blurring the lines between partners and more as winter unfolds.
- A Japanese merchant who leaves his wife behind in order to travel to Manchuria, where he witnesses an act of barbarism. His subsequent actions cause misunderstanding, jealousy and legal problems for his wife.
- A young couple announces their wedding at a party with friends. The reactions of the latter reveal hitherto unexpressed sentimental flaws within the group. The following days, the tension rises to the surface.
- 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.
- A famous movie producer gives her young production assistant a chance to direct his first film.
- A divorced mother works as a caregiver while living in a converted greenhouse, striving to earn enough to move with her middle school son into a real home.
- A girl without self-confidence meets a mysterious alchemist Hippocrates and his student Pipo who are on a mission to save the world. Together, they laid the groundwork for "Wonderland" and Akane is labeled as Wonderland's savior.
- Toko Suguri is married and they have a lovely daughter. She doesn't have any major problems in her life. One day, Toko Suguri meets her former lover, Akihiko Kurata, at a friend's wedding. They haven't seen each other in ten years. Toko Suguri indulges in a sexual relationship with Akihiko Kurata.
- When disaster strikes Japan in the form of a tsunami and subsequent nuclear reactor meltdown, a young photographer copes with tragedy by creating photographic portraits of his family.
- Akino, the new concierge works at a mysterious department store where a majority of the customers are animals.
- A factory town is covered by chimney smoke, and as the townspeople haven't see the sky in centuries, they no longer believe that stars exist. A chimney sweep and a friendly monster named Poupelle decide to prove that stars are real.
- Hanako is looking for stability with her man. She gets dumped instead. She begins dating. Miki studied and worked hard to get to where she is and is holding down a job. They are introduced through an intermediary man
- A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again.
- A young man who is curious about his deceased parents' past takes a food journey to Singapore where he uncovers more than just delicious meals.
- A man who spends his days in boredom meets a woman, who throws his life into chaos. Koji Fukada's first film adaptation of a comic book.
- Something's wrong and Etsuko is one of the first to notice. It's not just the sky that looks different, Etsuko suddenly begins hearing strange noises and an increasing number of inexplicable things are happening around her.
- Noriko is a university student. By her mother's recommendation, Noriko begins attending a Japanese tea ceremony near her house with her cousin Michiko. There, Noriko learns from Teacher Takeda. Noriko now has the Japanese tea ceremony in her life and it's there for her during moments when she is sad or happy.
- Serendipity began as a book, published on the occasion of Prune Nourry's solo show at the Guimet National Asian Art Museum in Paris in 2017. The French-born, New York-based artist has spent the majority of her artistic career creating work that deals with women's bodies and female fertility. A recent breast cancer diagnosis led Nourry to create Serendipity-now in the form of a stunning first-person documentary-which captures the subsequent evolution of her body, her work, her soul, and her mind. This impassioned, beautiful film embodies the artist's belief that everything is connected, coincidence is an illusion, and "the essentials to life really are health, love, and art."
- A home-care nurse's relationship with the family she has spent years working for is threatened when her nephew is arrested for kidnapping their daughter.
- Love on the edge, which can't get any closer than 10cm: Mitsuko, 31, who is getting used to a solo life and has a counselor named "A" in her brain, falls in love with a young man.
- The unknown life of Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai in the Edo period, who is said to have painted more than 30,000 works throughout his life, such as "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji".
- Five short 'film' stories of how 5 different directors imagine Japan to be in 10 years from now.
- The film follows the follies that ensue when a man and his wife shack up with a family that owns a printing press in their building, the husband takes it over, and the couple begin inviting a motley crew of friends.
- An Indonesian town by the sea has been ruined by war and tsunami. A man is found on the coast there by Atsuko and her son Takashi. They are working in disaster recovery. The man speaks poor Japanese and Indonesian. They name him Laut which means sea in Indonesian and protect him. Soon, Rau is connected with many miraculous cases.
- A young musician is secretly in love with the beautiful woman living across the street. He is unaware of the horrifying mental crisis she is going through. She is oblivious to the heavy price he had to pay when he gave up his dreams. The encounter between them will entwine their fates forever.
- The private life of policeman Rashi is thrown out of balance by a sudden loss of authority on the job.
- 'Human Comedy in Tokyo', describes ordinary everyday lives without any significant incidents. Various dialogues are elaborately woven to bring tiny splits in human relationships to light, and through the three episodes the characters have their moments of realizing that they are actually in solitude.
- Avigail had a baby too young and has been raising her alone. Now the teenage daughter is exploding with anger and defiance. When Avigail is remarried, the daughter doesn't accept the new father and the house turns into a war zone. Things become even more complicated when Avigail is unable to fulfill her husband's dream of becoming a father to his own child. Just when Avigail is about to collapse, she finds comfort in the hands of Yael, an expert in pregnancy and childcare. Yael, an abandoned child, had managed to build herself a persona of a spiritual guru of motherhood, only to run away from her grave fear of becoming a mother herself. Her troubled sister Na'ama is there to remind her the truth she has been running away from. Na'ama is a walking volcano. She is a bright and highly devoted daughter to her demented father by day and a desperate hunter of men at night. Yet, there is hope through connections. These women can help each other to change, break the cage of their self-destruction and be reborn.
- Psychiatrist Masatomo Yamamoto has dedicated his whole life to his patients. Now over 80 years of age, he tries to bid a farewell to them and his work. Soda's sequel to Seishin (2008) is a loving look at care and aging.