Echizen Washi artisan Takeo has lived in emotional isolation since the death of his wife, but he collapses due to a brain tumor and is in need of care. Yona,…

Tetsuo is a lowlife. A film director with a small indie hit many years back, yet he has never gotten any further as he refuses to go against his ‘artistic…

Hozumi is a doctor and he is friends with manga artist Soeda. They both like Asako who works at a tropical fish shop. Hozumi eventually gives up Asako for his…

A Taiwanese girl Yuwen comes to a village of Fukushima to study abroad. She thinks falling-in-love is a stupid thing and the land is unusually dry as Yuwen’s heart because…

Yuko, a former leader of the five-member idol group Pinkerton, with the help of man named Matsumoto, tries to reunite the now-disbanded group.

Set at the Hotel Royal, situated in the marshland of Hokkaido, Japan, and follows the guests, the family that runs the hotel, and the hotel’s staff. Masayo Tanaka is the…

Three sisters gather to celebrate their mother’s birthday at a relaxing ryokan with onsen; each other’s company seems far from the relaxation they are after. (Movie edit of the 5-episodes…

Four people lead ordinary lives in different places, their paths never crossing. A mysterious man appears in each story, always as someone else. One moment, a cram school instructor; the…