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- A Bulgarian man and his Japanese wife, who have met and got married while living as immigrants in Canada, are planning to have a baby and travel to Bulgaria in order to begin an in vitro fertilisation procedure. There, they get involved in a tragic incident which claims the life of a child. Nothing can be the same anymore.
- Chihiro is depressed and obsessed with his own mortality. Chihiro and his wife, Yuri, decide to take a trip to Bali, Indonesia to see his pregnant sister, Kumi. They hope the trip can bring about change.
- 14 short films with an animated end-title sequence by young directors born in late '80s to '90s.
- A teacher is sexually involved with an underage student. She visits her father's home and discovers a boy who's been kept as a sex slave. The teacher continues harboring the boy out of fear and begins to feel sexually attracted to him.
- After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to know the people of the town, including Takashi, a shy relative of her childhood friend.
- 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.
- Minokichi and Mosaku find shelter in a hut while out hunting during a snow storm. Minokichi awakens to discover his senior has been murdered by a female spirit, but has spared him due to his younger age. In exchange for the clemency, the spirit named Yuki ('snow' in Japanese and played by the director) under oath of death extracts a promise of silence from Minokichi. The man meets, falls for and marries a woman - again played by the director - resembling Yuki years later.
- A young woman returns to her birthplace for an ex-classmate's funeral. She and a friend lose themselves in melancholy.
- Julian, a Filipino soldier stationed in Kota Island, is ready to leave Kalayaan. He already completed his three months of service. News of a pending coup in Manila orders him to stay in the island until further notice.
- An unknown calamity is killing off ninety-percent of mankind. There is no cure, no hope and no future. A man and woman, who are laden with suffering and anxiety, are drawn together. They spend their final days, and perhaps the final days of the planet, together in a different environment somewhere in central Japan of the near future.
- Tomoharu is an employee at a traditional Japanese inn in coastal Kanazawa Prefecture, which is over a hundred years old. Also there are co-workers Karin and Maki. Risa, who is the daughter of the inn's owner, is about to have her wedding there and has invited her former colleagues. Karin seduces Tomoharu. Maki is unhappy about it.
- Set following the Fukushima nuclear disaster of Japan Watabe is a university student studying law. He cannot adapt to university, campus life, is weak and not determined. He is, however, followed by a fat girl who herself is having issues. She is being teased and bullied. Then Watabe chances upon Nako and his heart flutters at her appearance and demeanour.
- Set after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Yukako and Saeko are neighbours at their small Tokyo apartment. They are both anxious, nervous and uneasy about the world. Yukako worries about radiation and toxicity and wants to relocate. Saeko is feeling the same, which adds to the pressure she feels given how her husband has requested a divorce. Setting aside the obvious similarities the two grow close once one attempts a suicide.