作为当今日本影视圈占有一席之地的青年实力派演员，山田孝之似乎并不满意目前所取得的成就。为此，他请来与之有过合作的导演山下敦弘，阐述了自己的想法：即山田本人担任制作人拍摄一部电影，最终目标则是勇夺国际三大电影节之一——戛纳电影节大奖。山田言出必践，率先成立了自己的公司。他计划将某个变态杀人狂的故事搬上银幕，而请来的主演居然是以“治愈”“可爱”为标签的童星芦田爱菜。这一连串不按常理出牌的神展开令山下导演瞠目结舌，但他还是被山田制作人绑架去了解日本电影市场、戛纳影展的流程、获奖的可能性，甚至还拍了一个样片四处“蒙骗”制作费。 不靠谱的企划逐渐成型，山田孝之的戛纳之梦近在咫尺……

Daikichi learns that his recently deceased grandfather has an illegitimate daughter with an unknown mother. The girl's name is Rin and she is just 6 years old. Everybody in Daikichi's family looks at the girl as an embarrassment and wants no part of her. Daikichi, annoyed by his family's attitude, decides to raise Rin by himself. Even though Daikichi himself has no experience raising a child and is still single.

"Hankyu Densha" follows the lives of various people who commute on Hankyu Railway's Imazu Line - connecting the cities of Nishinomiya and Takarazuka in Hyogo prefecture. One of the commuters is Shoko (Miki Nakatani), an office worker in her 30s who lost her boyfriend to a younger colleague. There's also a college student (Erika Toda) who is so easily persuaded by her no good boyfriend. Other commuters include a grandmother & granddaughter, a house wife, a female high school student, and a female otaku college student. Although the train ride takes only 15 minutes between two stations, the lives of these commuters are changed as they interact with each other...