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Three poetic tales of seeking the true identity. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band's tomboy accordionist Diego. In another time and place, Lily, an elderly lesbian and Yen, her gay friend, create an unexpected bond and support each other in a time of crisis. Finally, we see Diego before she joined the band, when as a teenager she came to grips with her gender identity.
Laughter is brought about by a teacher-husband and student-wife couple.
In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as the eye can see. People treated him with respect. But even the richest must think about the future. One day, he decides to arrange a marriage between his only son, Junkichi and the daughter of an even more powerful family. Sobei, hoping to benefit from this union, soon discovers that his son was in love with a lower class girl.
Through a famous painting "South Street Festival", a Taiwanese college boy unexpectedly travels 100 years back in time, back to the 1920's, when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. He is stuck, he panics, he wants to return to 2014 but soon changes his mind, not just because of the prettiest geisha girl in town...
A tender tough guy, Shitou, and a fierce, strong-willed girl, Aijia, are thrown together by chance and quickly entangled in a series of misunderstandings. To get what she wants, Aijia uses every trick in the book: flipping from cat-and-mouse games to maid roleplay, pulling out all 36 strategies of love. Their love-hate dynamic sparks a chaotic but fast-paced romance in the 5G era. But as unexpected events unfold, hidden secrets begin to surface. Can their unofficial love survive the truth?
Noona is a groupie of J-Rock Idol “Makoto” the lead singer of “†яi￠к” (Trick) band. She has one dream to spend a night with him and she will be forever happy. That does not go well with her jealous boyfriend Sua Krong, a Judo athlete. Even though Noona feels guilty, the desire to be close to her idol is too much to disobey.
A gentle physician saved an injured rabbit in the forest, not knowing that it was actually a Rabbit Spirit. The Rabbit Spirit decided to visit the physician in a human form, and they started to become closer. But when the Rabbit Spirit hears the story of the White Snake, and how human and demons are not destined to be together, she begins to doubt if she should stay at the physician's side. (Short film sequel to the 医女和兔子精的故事 music video)
Ga-young, a filmmaker, visits Seong-bum, an art instructor, to consult on her affair with a married man. The two were once lovers of each other, though that does not stop Seong-bum from becoming a love counselor for Ga-young. Yet, they don′t just consult, but begin exploring new feelings for each other.
Bo-kyung is in the final year of her studies in oriental painting. Although she has a boyfriend of four years, Duk-woo, Bo-kyung has feelings for one particular senior.
Wen Chen, an honest insurance company salesman, has traveled all the way from China to look for a woman named Lu Shen. The two have enjoyed a rather carefree relationship together, where Wen, being Lu's "fake boyfriend", eventually fell victim of her never-ending series of bizarre challenges. In Tromsø, Wen bumps into a taxi driver who recognizes Lu as "the Chinese girl in the mountains", and the two of them set out to find her.
Three young hipster men who share an apartment in Bangkok are each chasing after a woman, but are unaware that it's the same woman they are after.
The five members of the band the Wynners are all packing up, ready for a singing tour in USA. Uncle Kau, a boss of a triad, planning to exchange their guitars with narcotics inside with the Wynners', so that their narcotics can be carried to USA. But he fails, as the Wynners has to cancel their plan, for a fire broke out in the night club. Uncle Kau thus dispatches three of his followers Wo, Anny and Jane to steal back the guitars.
Meet Chika. She thinks she's been jinxed: she's going to be dumped on Christmas Eve. Enter Tomako, who likes reading and making pudding. Although they're total opposites, by a twist of fate, they become best friends. However, it turns out they both want to spend Christmas Eve with the same guy. Will they choose friendship? Or love?
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
A short Christmas Eve love story which came with the special 30th Anniversary Edition of Tatsuro Yamashita's "Christmas Eve" album.
Hong Kong romance.
Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...
Il-gon is back in Korea after studying in the U.S. to find a bride to return with him, and asks his best friends, Tae-young and Sung-hoon, for help. When Il-gon finds the right woman, the other two friends' passions awaken, and they cannot help but find themselves drawn to her. Roto-scoping technique used.
Young-eun who has a crush on her classmate, Min-su, realizes that her younger sister Young-ji and Min-su are in a relationship. Though she tries to suppress her emotion it’s not easy. One night, Young-eun witnesses Young-ji and Min-su having sex.
When Hana falls in love with Ayumi, a girl she meets in her sign language group, she comes out to her parents who swiftly reject her. In an effort to cheer her up, Ayumi takes Hana to a deaf LGBTQ group in Tokyo, as they both find self-acceptance. A landmark film with a deaf cast and crew, this tender and sweet story showcases the beauty found within intersectionality and will warm the hearts of deaf and hearing audiences alike.
A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.
A romantic drama depicting the lives of two generations of a family who run a Tokyo florist shop.
Kanako, a college senior, is torn between her unreliable ex Keishi and her steady new admirer Yoichi. As Keishi grows close to a freshman named Maiko, and Yoichi’s ex Aiko moves on, Kanako must decide what—and who—she really wants.
Successful author and media darling Bright is an icon of singledom. However, a fortune-teller's warning of dire consequences resulting from unresolved issues with former lovers forces her to revisit and reexamine her five past relationships and calls her renunciation of romance into question.
Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old homes and lives a peaceful existence with nature. Takumi then meets Kayoko, a woman who went to the same school as Takumi. Kayoko is fascinated with the color crimson. She dyes scarves with the color of hanezu. Kayoko lives with boyfriend Tetsuya, who works as an editor of a PR magazine. They live together. Soon, Kayoko falls in love with Takumi.
Kyung-hak, who has been studying to become a police officer, is forced to pay back his mother’s debt of $20,000. Already struggling and having to work part- time while studying, Kyung-hak is now forced to make big monthly loan payments on top. Eventually, Kyung-hak stops studying and becomes a deliveryman to make ends meet. Meanwhile, cracks start to form in his relationship with his beloved girlfriend Hye-jin.
While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a nearby village think she is a monster, the female of a shark killed many years before, responsible for many disappearances.
Plastic city suffers from the big chill. The extreme weather conditions prohibits and human existence on the ground surface. An hostel is under this deserted landscape. A doorkeeper of the hostel Kirin is an orphan and nobody knows exactly where he is from. People named him Kirin simply because he earns his life by collecting emptied Kirin beer cans. One day he meets a woman nomad Lanian.
Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together at the beach.
In a picturesque Guangxi village, deaf Wang Jiakuan falls for Zhu Ling, who is already in love with someone else. Cai Yuzhen, visiting to find her brother, stays with Wang Jiakuan and falls for him. Zhu Ling, pregnant and locked in her room, is discovered by villagers who also learn Cai Yuzhen is mute. Heartbroken, Wang Jiakuan leaves but returns, and Zhu Ling tries to match him with Cai Yuzhen.
As a child, Lian Hua dreamed of becoming a performer in Singapore's Getai shows, concerts staged the same month each year and featuring emotionally broad songs of love, life and death. However, Lian's father dissuaded her from following her dreams, and while Lian never lost her love for music, her ambitions would be tied to tragedy as she grew to adulthood. As a grown woman, Lian finally seems poised to make her mark as a performer when she joins forces with flashy vocalist Astroboy and heartthrob Ah Long. Ah Long falls for Lian, but their romance comes to an abrupt end and Lian is assaulted by a handful of thugs who want to collect a debt from her father. Ten years later, middle aged Lian thinks she may have another chance at success when she finds new love, but fate has led her to the brink of madness and once again disappointment lies in wait for her.
Omnibus film examining the relationships between girls.
High school student Yeon-ju and Eun-chae were rehearsing for a joint performance at the school after school ahead of the school festival performance. Then suddenly, a baseball that Hee-jun threw badly from the playground flies in through the window. Hee-jun comes into the classroom looking for the ball and the Yeon-ju tries to find Hee-jun's ball.
The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.
Sachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to live in an apartment building that also houses seven elderly women. The film examines the ladies' sexual desires as the man proceeds to woo each of them. Kazuko Yoshiyuki portrays one of the female residents. The film was adapted from a novel by Houko Momotani and was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival.
An alien girl in search of her brother must inhabit and switch through different human bodies to survive Earth's environment.
Several modern city men and women get lost and puzzled on their way chasing happiness.
Former Olympic candidate Kaneda Musashi has been appointed coach of the women's track and field club at Tsukimi University. Meanwhile, Misaki Tono, the 100 meters ace there, is in a slump because she can't sprint due to her chest being too big…! With competition against a rival college just around the corner, can Musashi, a virgin track and field head, win the hearts of the female college students!?
Set in Thailand, between April-June 1999, 'A Moment In June' is a story of the fusion of six lives, a song that links them together, a hope of the second chance that might never come and a moment they all need to make a life-changing decision.
In 1940 Osaka, a celebrated shamisen performer lives fast as war and shifting tastes erode his fame. The daughter of a restaurant owner quietly loves him, but circumstances drive them apart. Years later, in a changed postwar city, they meet again amid the remains of their former lives.
An omnibus horror TV special where three girls encounter a beautiful rose patterned yellow one-piece dress which curses them as they try to gain the attention of a man they like in their lives.
Yusuke Kinoshita is forced by his father to work at his restaurant Pia Carrot all summer due to his bad grades in school. What first seems to be a boring job becomes a memorable experience due to his interactions with his co-workers and his boss.
The second theatrical play adaptation of the popular manga series “Patalliro!”.
Yuka came to work as an intern nurse at a hospital and she met Shunichi again. They were school friends, and she liked him. But, she found out that Shunichi had an osteosarcoma.
Nozomi is a former actress who moves back to Japan from New Zealand. Upon arriving, she meets her fellow high school student neighbor Ryotaro Shiba, who decides to join the high school boxing club. Adapted from Toshio's Nobe manga, with the same title.
After spending money like there is no tomorrow, Gab's parents decide to teach him a lesson by no longer sending him money. With no cash in hand, Gab is forced to work as a part time cashier at a convenient store. While there, he stumbles upon Som, at the same time every night. After finding her in a wet suit in the store, Gab learns that Som has been following him and that only he can communicate with her. Wanting to know what happened to her, Gab sets out to investigate Som's life and figure out how to help her.
A man on a bike trip across the country gets killed in an accident. His lover, So-wol, moves to the island where he died and settles down. 3 years later, the couple’s close friend, Cheol, pays her a surprise visit. Staying at her place, he goes fishing or ventures out looking for a particular lighthouse. Slowly, without knowing, the seemingly mundane daily life of island mends their broken heart.
Chun, 28, Taiwanese, goes on a conflict-packed search journey with her Chinese guide, Ming, to find her father's long-lost first love, XiuQian, in China. Chun's father had promised XiuQian 60 years ago that he'd definitely come back to marry her. But not until recently, Taiwan and China were hostile to each other, he was never able to fulfill his promise. Chun and Ming grew up on two sides of the Taiwan Strait and were brought up with different values. They don't hesitate to cut each other down to size. Their turbulent romance unfolds in tears, laughter and a clash of values. The love story of two generations, across the Taiwan Strait, told with touching drama and biting comedy, is a poignant and entertaining road movie.
A struggling writer and his engaged buddy hit the road for California wine country.
A young cameraman receives a letter from an old girlfriend, announcing that she is to hold a photo exhibition in the United States. Having heard rumors that she has died, he follows his curiosity to New York City.
This is the story of young fifteen-year-old actress and model Mio Hagiwara, her school and friends, and over all, her relationship with Ichiya Kumagai, a cool young director of her age with which Mio falls in love with.
Akoko has a straightforward and honest personality, and acts immediately on what she thinks, unable to lie to herself or others. By her side is her best friend since third grade, Miyuki, who she has known since they were in elementary school. On the first day of school at the start of the new semester, Naoki, the most popular boy in school and the driving force behind attending the all-girls school, has unexpectedly repeated a year and is now in the same grade as the two of them! Akoko falls in love with Naoki at first sight and begins to approach him in a very straightforward manner. Miyuki declares that she doesn't like him, saying "I think he's cool, but it doesn't feel like love," but Akoko senses Miyuki's suspicious movements. The first to strike wins! She confesses her feelings to Naoki.