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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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.