Akiko Nishina

Maruo, an independent film director, feels that he doesn't want to have sex because he loves her, and because of this, he breaks up with his girlfriend Aki. Unable to forget Aki, he tries to make a new movie based on his experience, but is stuck in writing the script. Why couldn't he hold Aki? Unable to find the answer himself, Maruo decides to meet her again to face that question. On the other hand, Aki is married to Tagashira, an office worker, but even though she wants to have children, she is worried about a sexless marital relationship. When Aki meets Maruo again after a long time, she asks him to give her some of his sperm.

Sonoko, a bored married woman, falls for a fellow art student, the young and beautiful Mitsuko. The relationship develops and starts to affect and involve their partners.

Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that's done, she heads to her day job as a supermarket cashier. Minako is 50 and single. In one of the houses to which she delivers milk is a man with whom she has secretly been in love since high school. The man, Keita (KISHIBE Ittoku), lives with his wife Yoko, who is terminally ill. Caring for her at home, he works in the children's affairs section of the local municipal office. Though he insists that he wants nothing more than an "ordinary" existence, his life is in turmoil below the surface. The director uses a variety of narrative devises to portray the loneliness, isolation, and hope of these people who have seemingly allowed their goals and dreams to slip away, whilst keeping them agonizingly close to hand.

The housewife and part-time private detective Noriko Yamada plays her old tricks again, uncovering mysterious corruption cases. But this time she will solve it adopting the style of "Beatrix Kiddo" from Kill Bill.

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.

Depicts various relationships between four beautiful sisters, their husbands, and their second daughter's husband's mistress.

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the murderer is.

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Ayumi and her husband, Ryoma, who meet by chance and run a grape farmer together. Every winter, Ryoma leaves his house and fields to his wife and goes to Tokyo to work. In the meantime, Ayumi lives with her mother-in-law, and even if she calls Ryoma occasionally, she always hangs up bluntly. Ryoma had a chance reunion with his childhood friend Chihiro in Tokyo. Ryoma floats to the reunion with Chihiro, who used to like him. On the other hand, Kusakabe, a younger man who was also attracted to Ayumi, appeared. Ayumi and Kusakabe suddenly approach each other, and at some point they cross the line...

Shun Miyata's new life in Tokyo takes a dark turn when he and coworker Yuka discover their boss Yuriko is involved in insurance fraud and murder. As they grapple with the betrayal, their bond deepens, contrasting youthful hope against a backdrop of adult corruption.

A young boy, Masahiko Sakurai, grows up in Nagasaki where he sees the clear blue ocean everyday. His mother wants him to be a violinist. To make her dream come true, Masahiko goes to Tokyo to learn the violin, and stays with his aunt, Setsuko, in Kamakura near Tokyo. Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Masashi Sada's novel of the same name received the 21st Japanese Cinema Reconstruction and Promotion Award and the 46th Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Pilot for a TV series. In the pilot Hiroshi Tachi is a lower ranked samurai investigating the the murder of Tanuma Okitsugu's son Mototomo by Sano Masakoto. Those events are a matter of history but the plot that Hiroshi unveils and is eventually killed for is fictional.

Miyama Akira is a movie director in his 60's. In the past, he left his hometown to chase his dream. When he learns that his friend, who used to talk about their future, died, he goes back to his hometown for the first time in decades. While he walks along the streets there, he thinks about the life of his late friend and gets inspired to write a script about him.

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