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A man is assaulted by someone with a bat and attempts to figure out why.

No Pants Girls is a 3 segment film directed by Sono Sion, Shô Tsukikawa and Reiko Saito. They deal with girls discovering sexuality, through their innocent eyes. The actors and actresses are the same in the three films.

"Movie Box-ing" is a Japanese film from 2003. It is an omnibus-style film consisting of three short stories: "Run-ing", "The Spinning Boy" and "The Policeman and the Summer Clothes" "Run-ing": Four men and women, each with their own unique circumstances and backgrounds, find themselves running after hearing the gunshot of an assassin targeting a man who stole a bag from an organization. The story follows what happens when they reach the finish line. "The Spinning Boy": Yoshio loves to spin around. Despite a class goal to make him stop spinning, he continues. One day, his father gets injured, and Yoshio declares, "I won't spin anymore." "The Policeman and the Summer Clothes": On the eve of a summer festival, Shingo, a policeman in a small coastal town, is involved in a case. While his girlfriend, Chizuru, is job hunting in Tokyo, Shingo questions Mariko, a university entrance exam candidate, about breaking a shop window.

"Movie Hustle" collects five short films by up and coming directors and starring idols.