Seitarou Ishibashi

Everyday a woman feverishly practices ping pong by herself. She play ping pong to distract herself from the reality of her life which includes the occasional sexual harrasment at work. A chance encounter one night slowly begins to change her world.

A short film by Yoichi Tanaka

Antonym is a slow-burning drama about human connection, told through the story of two women who come together to write a radio drama. Vain and self-centred Aya is forced to find a writing partner to work on the radio script she is developing. Heavily reluctant to collaborate, she partners shy co-worker Sachiko, who eagerly embraces the project. Peppered with coincidental occurrences and failed relationships, and powered by the friction and growing friendship between the women as they work on the script, Antonym is as much about the inevitability of human connection as it is about the necessity of it.

A mysterious disease spreads around the world. If people get the disease, cherry blossoms will bloom on their body and they will die. The cause or possible vaccine for the disease does not exist. People begin to accept the disease as part of their daily lives.

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A cure for a certain disease. The side effect was to "forget" a certain person. Seto Yukiya is a man who has "forgotten" his ex-girlfriend. Mikoto Hayashi, a woman who has had a crush on Yukiya for many years, lies to him that she was his lover. Chisa Nagato, a wife who has "forgotten" the loss of her beloved child. Her husband, Kojiro Nagato, tries to pretend that they never had a child. This is a story of two couples, a man and a woman, and the people who stand by them...