"The reason she stopped falling in love…"
High school student Naotatsu travels to live at his uncle's house. In the pouring rain, he is picked up at the nearest station by a strange adult woman named Sakaki who guides him to an unexpected share house where a life together begins.
Suzu Hirose
Chisa Sakaki
Riku Onishi
Naotatsu Kumazawa
Kengo Kora
Shigemichi Utagawa
Ami Touma
Kaede Izumiya
Junki Tozuka
Hayate Izumiya
Masanobu Katsumura
Jingo Sakaki
Yukiya Kitamura
Tatsuo Kumazawa
Maki Sakai
Sanae Takashima
Katsuhisa Namase
Kenzo Naruse
High school student Naotatsu travels to live at his uncle's house. In the pouring rain, he is picked up at the nearest station by a strange adult woman named Sakaki who guides him to an unexpected share house where a life together begins.
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
A high school girl wakes up each day with no memory of the day before. When she agrees to date a shy classmate, Toru, he begins to fall for her—despite her rule against falling in love.
A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.
The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.
Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
A smart high school student falls in love with her English teacher after she receives one-on-one tutoring from him.
An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander. But the two learn more about each other, love may have a chance.
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to be called Itsuki Fujii.