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- A teenager called Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Tokoyama, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle", which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
- Renko, a girl in the sixth grade, is at first unperturbed by her parents' decision to separate. With the companionship of her boyfriend, Minoru, and Sally, a classmate in the same boat, Renko gradually realises the practical implications of divorce, and tries repeatedly to get her parents to reconcile. An old man teaches her about the need to forget the past...
- Toshiaki is a young gay man. On the first day of work, he meets Yosuke in the elevator. Yosuke is Toshiaki's new boss. Toshiaki is attracted to Yosuke. Toshiaki can't be honest with his feelings about it due to a traumatic incident from his past.
- Set in the countryside village of Vietnam, Yellow Flowers on the Green grass is a touching tale of innocent love, friendships and brotherhood.
- At an all-girls school, a group of girls prepare for a stage performance of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".
- With the Tendos, the Saotomes, Ryoga, Shampoo and Ukyo misinterpreting Tatewake Kuno's invitation to his two loves, Akane and "The Pig Tailed Girl", to try his new yacht, a whole new episode of chaos begins in the already unstable lives of the Saotome/Tendo clan. A mysterious shadow kidnaps first Akane's sister Kasumi, then continues on until all the girls disappear. All except everyone's favorite hydrotranssexual. As an ambush, Ranma's set out to trap one of the shadows, revealing them to be under the control of a powerful prince Toma. Toma is the young prince of a floating island to which only males are born due to a powerful spring which turns anything into a man. Of course, he's out to rescue the girls, but more importantly, can he get a hold of the water that may free him of the Jusenkyo curse? And even more importantly, can he keep his mouth shut before Akane does more damage to him then Prince Toma does?
- Sachiko Hanai is a call girl. One day she is caught up in a gunfight and is shot in the forehead. Instead of killing her, the bullet in her head gives her psychic powers. She also accidentally comes into possession of a cylinder containing George W. Bush's finger, whose fingerprint is designed to launch a nuclear missile, and international spies are soon chasing her.
- When Prince Kirin of the 7 Lucky Gods shows up at the Tendo dojo looking for his bride-to-be, guess who's accidentally holding the scroll that signifies his future mate? Why, Akane, of course, and the rest of the Ranma crew is forced to take a boat to China in order to save her from the horrors of marriage and a diet of pickled vegetables.
- A dark fantasy about life, sex, and love that depicts the tragedy of a girl who becomes a monster.
- Nami, the widow of a disgraced narcotics officer seeks to clear his name by going undercover.
- Takane is a teenage student who loves art. Her friend Mika wants to become a novelist. They are best friends and have developed feelings for each other. Their relationship though becomes shaken by the presence of Namie. Namie is an ex-novelist and works as a librarian.
- Sachiko Suzuki (Naoho Ichihashi) is a female high school student. She claims that she is an alien and her mission on Earth is to conceive a child with a human man. Sachicko seduces her class teacher Mr. Fukuda (Yukichi Kobayashi)..
- Nami is a photographer on the set of a porn film. When photographing a rape scene between a teacher and a schoolgirl, she becomes uncomfortable, having remembered a similar incident in her own past.
- A kidnap plot involving the daughter of a powerful Japanese businessman goes terribly wrong.
- Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD.
- Mary (17) and Atsushi (20) elope and come to live in Tokyo from a nearby city. Soon after running out of money, they start looking for a job. Mari meets a girl named Kana who sells party tickets in the streets. Kana claims she's 18 years old but in actuality she is only 15. Atsushi comes to know a group of young scoutmen and gets hired as one of them. While Marie and Atsushi are encountering with these people, their beliefs and values are shaken.
- A documentary about a man who remained alone in a no-man's land after the nuclear disaster, following his struggling to survive with the animals, in a small town that Japan tries to erase from the map.
- Takeda (Shun Sugata) is an honest police officer, father and husband, but after he's promoted to detective he quickly becomes embroiled in dirty back room dealings, blackmail, and corruption that goes right to the top of the force. Meanwhile renegade investigator Kusama (Junichi Kawamoto) must decide whether he should shake the foundations of Japanese law enforcement with the information that has come into his possession about the police. What will happen if both these men listen to their consciences?
- A college student named Yu becomes friends with an married older woman named Fumie who frequents the store where he works. Over time, their relationship turns romantic and the inexperienced Yu finds himself becoming more and more preoccupied with this confident adult woman.
- Yawara helps a group of timid grade school kids overcome their fears and compete in a judo competition.
- A film focused on "love" and "seduction," in which six creators compete from various fields of film and TV to direct to video and manga.
- Things go from bad to worse. Masao's life has not been peaches. His fatherhood dream was smashed, his wife abandoned him and his work was a dead-end. So he abandons it all and moves to Ibaraki north of Tokyo. Then he meets shoko who is a local schoolgirl in this rural setting and things become different.
- A hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and two children to visit his parents in his hometown for the 1991 new year holidays. He decides that they will go by car to save on expenses. Unfortunately, the long drive from Tokyo to his hometown becomes a much longer journey than expected due to traffic, sickness and other misfortunes and by the time they arrive three days later, they only have time for a short but happy visit.
- "I never got to feel the warmth of a loving family." That is what Seishiro notes down in 1948, who was adopted as a child by the idealistic Eichiro. In 1980, Izumi works at a bank and she lives with her mother Ito. Twenty-two years later, in the evening on a winter night and the day before Izumi is to marry, her mother tells Izumi about her late father's dream, Seishiro. Herfather's dream was of Izumi's marriage. Izumi reminisces about her loving father. What happened in the meantime? In reversed chronological order this movie tells a story about a man who had much to give and what he got in return.
- An attractive woman works at a hostess club. She has a son and works hard in order to make money and raise her son. She has a regular customer who is loyal and punctual, but mysterious nonetheless. He does not demand sex. The customer is always looking over his shoulder and observing what is going on outside. The hostess sees him at a theme park one day.
- Eri Manaka is young, charming and writes a romance novel out of boredom. This makes her the new star in the world of literature, idolized at parties and ensnared by the literary elite. When her own romances were less successful, she started the much more pessimistic follow-up novel - but the characters didn't quite agree with what Eri was telling them.
- Reika, a news announcer, is haunted by visions related to an incident when she was 10 years old. Who is Akane, the child who appears in her visions? And is Akane responsible for the incidents that Reika announces on her news show?
- Akemi is a housewife who discovers her husband has been cheating on her. She makes the acquaintance of a prostitute who hopes to become a manga artist. Another hopeful manga artist, Kyoko, also makes ends meet by working as a part-time prostitute. Akemi moves in with Kyoko and tolerating the practice of her profession while the two come to an understanding of each other's lives.
- 28-year-old Shoko Otsuka reminisces about a boy she liked in high school. His name was Mizuno. However, when she mentions him to her close friends from that era, no one seems to remember him. While thinking about this boy she was infatuated with back then, she begins to develop feelings for a new coworker. Finally, their romance blossoms, just as Shoko learns the truth behind why her love in high school never came to be.
- Mari was a victim of school bullying. One day, a beautiful girl named Ray stands in front of her and she helps Mari to punish her tormentors. No longer want to be dependent on the help of others Mari, decides to become stronger and to do so, she begins to train dodgeball. Soon, the girl has the opportunity to confront her torturers on the field and learn about the true motives of her former savior.
- A lecturer at the University of Tokyo is in his thirties and has never been with a woman. One day he meets an old student of his and decides that she will be the one to take his virginity. The only problem? She is leaving the country.
- A 14 year-old-boy murders a young girl. His family are ashamed and change their names as a result, then three years later...
- After Misao divorced, she moved to Vietnam. She has always admired the country. There, she works as a Japanese language teacher. She learns that her brother-in-law is taking her mother with Alzheimer's into a facility. Misao decides to take her mother to Vietnam instead. At first, her mother is uncomfortable adapting to life in a strange land. Her mother comes around though and embraces the warm people in Vietnam. One day, her mother is injured and Misao faces the reality in nursing her.
- A documentary that pursues the traces of a woman in Yokohama who stood at a street corner as a prostitute for 50 years after the war. In winter 1995, Mary disappeared from the street.
- Set in a small fishing village in Shikamachi, Ishikawa Prefecture, where not much happens and there is a dearth of entertainment citizens depend on the town's amateur orchestra. However, when the conductor suddenly dies and his seventeen-year-old granddaughter arrives there may be a new source for talent everyone can hang their hopes on.
- The touching romance between a middle-aged single guy and a woman with bipolar disorder. Iwata abandons his dream of becoming a guitarist, and works as an apartment building janitor. He spends his days living modestly as he deals with his unglamorous work. One day, he meets tenant Yumi when she returns home wasted.
- A high school teacher and his student fall in love and persist against all odds. Not paying heed to convention, they spend time together and also go for a drive, which ends in tragedy. Not being able to move one, the teacher visits a mystical tunnel of love in Ukraine where he meets his student again who appears to him as she was twenty years earlier.
- This movie is an alternative version of the TV series; the two 2007 OVAs combined, edited to improve the pacing of the plot, and an extra segment (Hymn to Triumph) akin to a TV episode where the cast are given the task of studying flowers.