Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.

2006 anime film directed by Satoshi Kon

When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of his life. But he'll get by with a little help from his friends, who include a famous pop diva, a rockabilly deliveryman, a crippled old gangster, and the world's most cheerful serial killer.

和之美01：江户切子 和之美02：和菓子 和之美03：日本刀 和之美04：荞麦面 和之美05：豆腐 和之美06：和服 和之美07：澡堂 和之美08：夏食 和之美09：屋形船 和之美10：烟花 和之美11：浅草 和之美12：江户前寿司 和之美13：银座寿司 和之美14：糖 和之美15：熊手 和之美16：三曲 和之美17：日本酒

2008 film by Hiroshi Nishitani

A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.

2008 film by Hirokazu Koreeda

1974 film by Shūji Terayama

The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.

2004 film by Masaaki Yuasa

A young theatre actress fights for her uncertain career while having to confront the personal sacrifices that will arise from it.

Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that's done, she heads to her day job as a supermarket cashier. Minako is 50 and single. In one of the houses to which she delivers milk is a man with whom she has secretly been in love since high school. The man, Keita (KISHIBE Ittoku), lives with his wife Yoko, who is terminally ill. Caring for her at home, he works in the children's affairs section of the local municipal office. Though he insists that he wants nothing more than an "ordinary" existence, his life is in turmoil below the surface. The director uses a variety of narrative devises to portray the loneliness, isolation, and hope of these people who have seemingly allowed their goals and dreams to slip away, whilst keeping them agonizingly close to hand.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman — an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.

Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.

2010 film directed by Tetsuya Nakashima

2006 film by Tetsuya Nakashima

日本神户某个飘雪的冬日，渡边博子（中山美穗）在前未婚夫藤井树的两周年祭日上又一次悲痛到不能自已。正因为无法抑制住对已逝恋人的思念，渡边博子在其中学同学录里发现“藤井树” 在小樽市读书时的地址时，依循着寄发了一封本以为是发往天国的情书。 不想不久渡边博子竟然收到署名为“藤井树（酒井美纪）”的回信，经过进一步了解，她知晓此藤井树是一个同她年纪相仿的女孩，且还是男友藤井树（柏原崇）少年时代的同班同学。为了多了解一些昔日恋人在中学时代的情况，渡边博子开始与女性藤井树书信往来。而藤井树在不断的回忆中，渐渐发现少年时代与她同名同姓的那个藤井树曾对自己藏了一腔柔情。