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- An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
- The movie follows 3 Japanese friends from embarking on Yamato, the world's largest battleship, until it's sunk 3 1/2 years later on April 7, 1945 on it's way to Okinawa to stop American advance at the end of WWII.
- A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
- 9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.
- Follows two sisters, one clumsy and ignored, the other a perfect child. After the latter dies in an accident, she returns as a ghost to guide her little sister.
- Lonely and love-struck, high-school student Hiroki pursues one girl but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his lonely psyche, or real? An intricate triangle develops, and the viewer can't quite be sure what is happening until the whole story is neatly resolved at the end.
- Yuta, an absent-minded 5th-grader, is sent to spend the summer with his grandfather, whom Yuta's parents think is becoming senile and could benefit from Yuta's companionship. At first, Yuta thinks Gramps is a bit addled, too, but as he gets to know the old man better, he finds that his grandfather sees things quite differently from other people. The special bond that often develops between grandfather and grandson grows stronger and stronger until the magical and heartwarming finale.
- People from all walks of life (a high-school student, a middle-aged businessman, a yakuza chief, etc.) all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening. At the stroke of midnight, the lost ship emerges from the sea and they are given a brief time to say their final words to their lost loved ones, before the deceased must once again board the ship and it sinks back into the depths.
- Colorfully edited vignettes of young characters having fun in the town of Onomichi.
- A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which leads the two to live under the same roof.
- Set at the end of the Taisho era (1920s) at Ishiuchi Jinjo Higher Elementary School in the mountains of Hiroshima prefecture, there was a fervent teacher called Mr. Ichikawa. He always placed his pupils first and took any issues to heart.
- A non-narrative tribute to the seaside town of Onomichi, where Obayashi grew up and where most of these films were made.
- Documentary about 3 adult video performers, searching for their identities.
- Seiichiro used to be a successful chief executive officer for a company that invented and manufactured personal injury avoidance devices. Was, because he is no longer. He is ousted and unemployed. Well, he is looking for love. He meets many women among them the younger Nagi through a blind date. They have a tiff, but she still wants to be with him. He, on the other hand, is doing his playboy thing.
- An illustrator from Tokyo meets the spirit of a young woman who died eight years ago.
- Akari's birth mother is originally from Osaka. She moves to Osaka to live with her grandmother to learn more about her mother. She learns that her grandmother closed the okonomiyaki (a Japanese savory pancake) restaurant after Akari's teenage mother had ran away. Akari then re-opens the okonomiyaki restaurant and tries to start the business on her own.
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