Angel's Share

Rai pedals his bike and trailer about town, collecting old iron and sowing flower seeds. Because his face never seems to show emotion, everybody calls him Hotoke - meaning Buddha. His elder brother Shiba, however, is tough as nails and works the black market. Rai is building a gigantic statue of Buddha from the scrap metal he has gathered over the years. He prays the Buddha he is creating will come to life and rid the world of its cruelty.

Knowing that he has only a month to live, a pianist goes back to his beloved ocean. He meets a girl with a broken leg. She is the daughter of his dearest woman who died many years ago. The relationship between them becomes closer. They rescue a man who tries to commit suicide. When the pianist is nearing his end, that man finds love in the girl's heart...

While studying in Japan, Hong meets Jungo and goes through a sad love and breakup. Five years later, the two are reunited in Korea.

Due to his short fuse, Kyota is never able to hold a job for very long. Instead, he wastes his days with his dead-beat friends, Takuji and Ringo. Meanwhile his father is a cross-dresser, and his little sister Akemi is a dangerous sleepwalker who is trying to divorce her dangerous yakuza husband. When their mother returns after abandoning them 10 years earlier, Kyota lashes out. But as their dysfunctional life together begins, something happens that changes this family's destiny forever.

An appassionato art student and a dispassionate college girl make a vow, saying they would meet each other again in the Florence Cathedral after 10 years.

A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo.

Popular theater company director Yuuji Kaieda (Yoshikuni Dochin) secretly marries and lives with his lover Aki (Rin Takanashi). Aki is the main actress of the theater company. Aki’s younger sister Haruna (Anna Ishibashi) then appears. In the past, Yuuji and Haruna had a secret intimate relationship. Yuuji tries to keep his distance from Haruna because of this. Soon, Yuuji and Aki's secret is disclosed.

Higashigaito Yutaka is transferred to the Bangkok branch of Eastern Airlines. In three months, he will marry Michiko, a relative of the airline's founder, and though he doesn't love her, he knows he could be CEO one day if they wed. In Thailand, Yutaka meets Touko at a bar and is instantly drawn to her. His relationship with her only intensifies as the wedding date approaches. Eventually, he decides to break up with her and calls Michiko in front of her. Touko is disappointed, and the next day she leaves for New York. Yutaka and Michiko reunite in Thailand and proceed with their wedding. Twenty-five years later, Yutaka and Michiko are married with two sons. But Yutaka still harbors memories of Touko in his heart. Yutaka visits Bangkok on business and goes to the Oriental Hotel where he had stayed with Touko-and finds she is now in charge of VIP guests there. They realize their love for each other remains, but reality pulls them apart once again.

"Acacia" revolves around Sekiji Ishida (Antonio Inoki) a former professional wrestler now a lonely retired man. Sekiji then strikes up a friendship with a reserved young boy.

Chuya (Mitsuru Matsuoka) works as a university professor. His big dream is to make a sound map of Tokyo. He spends his days collecting sounds in Tokyo and analyzing the sounds. One day, his girlfriend Fumi (Natsumi Abe) tells him that she is leaving him and mysterious woman Mariko (Yumi Adachi) appears in front of him. Mariko, who knows about the break up of Chuya and Fumi, suggests to Chuya to wiretap Mariko’s life.