Pension: Love Is Pink

On a rainy day, a tired man is standing in the kitchen. He is preparing a special curry to eat on his wife's birthday three days later. It is an important dish that has become an annual event. The radio program he loves to listen to is encouraging listeners to send in their "secret recipes." The man picks up his phone and starts writing an email him about his special home cooking. (Source: sonocurry.com)

A talented French chef who lost his sense of taste teams up with a misfit monk to run a food stall at a temple, serving comforting meals to those in need of emotional healing.

When Ozu’s older sister and her husband suddenly passed away after an accident, 32-year-old Ozu temporarily moved to Fukushima from Tokyo in order to look after his 12-year-old niece Mei during the summer vacation. He has a modern way of thinking but is lethargic about everything in his daily life. In Fukushima, he meets the local residents who have been living positively with the aim of recovering from the Great East Japan Earthquake, as well as the immigrants who have come from outside of the prefecture in order to realize their aspirations. As he resides alongside his artistic niece, their bond starts to deepen, and through his interactions with Mei and the many residents of Fukushima, he starts to change and grow as a person.

The story describes how youngsters struggle to cope with the gap between their ideals and reality.

Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze of interlocking cube-shaped rooms containing deadly traps.

A suave beautician offers patients the chance to correct what they feel nature has gotten wrong. Governed by an unconventional morality, the beautician instead employs a deadly contraption to bring patients in line with the beautician's unnatural notions of beauty.

54-year-old Mikawa Meiko is a single woman who quit her office job to run a small donut shop. One night, she picks up a wallet that has fallen at her feet and takes it to the police station, but the handsome young man who owns it says, "Thank you, Auntie," and she is shocked by the power of those words. Faced with the reality of being an "auntie," Meiko confronts one wall after another of "aging."