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……

2008 film by Hirokazu Koreeda

2016 film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda

在新闻部门工作的女强人岩谷澄丽(加藤小雪 饰)，因为个性不茍言笑，虽然有哈佛大学的高学历，却被私底下称为“木偶”。在发现自己的男朋友居然跟别的女人怀孕之后，她下定决心下定决心下次要找个学历身高收入都比她高的男性。因为上班时打了上司一拳，所以被调到不起眼的生活情报部门。经历工作与爱情的双重打击，失意的她更是关起心扉不让任何人接近。某日澄丽晚上回家时，发现在家门口有一大箱子，里面居然躺着一个受伤的大男孩合田武志(松本润 饰)，此时天下起了大雨，澄丽在无奈之下只能将武志带回家照顾，次日武志耍赖不肯离开，并保证会象仆人一样为澄丽做任何事情，看着武志可爱的表情让澄丽突然想起小时候喂养的爱犬momo，便将男孩当宠物一样对待，并给他取名momo......

2012 film by Kenji Uchida

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.

总有一盏书店的灯光，等待温暖人心。 日本人对书店有两种称呼，“书店（shoten）”和“本屋（honya）”。前者比较书面，后者则偏口语，带着一种亲切感，我们通常会在“本屋”后面加上一个“桑”。我小时候，没事儿就老往离家不远的小书店跑。母亲听到门口穿鞋的动静，问我去哪儿，我总回答：“去本屋桑。” 可是长大后，“本屋桑”渐渐变少了。他们在哪儿呢，他们还好吗？

行万里路，写一卷书。熊培云以记者的敏锐和学者的深度，详细记录了旅日期间的所见与所思。本书不仅梳理了日本自明治以来的思想流变，同时深入探讨了当今日本的社会结构与社会问题。有关“日本是中国之药”的结论，注定这不只是一本日本之书，更是一本中国之书。 日本是中国的一味药。至于药性如何，很大程度上取决于中国对日本的态度。如果认真学习日本的社会建设，日本将是一味良药，可以医治中国“弱社会”与“强个人”的病灶。如果只是看到日本在向右转、安倍在参拜靖国神社、右翼在街头举旗叫喊，从而继续以民族主义、国家主义来强化中国“强国家-弱社会”的结构，则可能适得其反。倘若良药未成反自制苦果，将是一味毒药。 我之所以仍然热衷于寻访一些我所喜爱的历史人物，固然是因为在他们身上我可以找到精神与思想上的共鸣，此外还有对历史木已成舟的某种伤怀。我相信这种伤怀不仅是基于古老的悲剧意识，更是我对所有尼布尔意义上的光明之子的深切回望。我想从黑暗年代里寻回一点光亮，希望那些曾经照亮过去的人也将照亮未来。 大自然馈赠人类太多的恩情。它给了人类免费的死亡，人类却没有耐心等待这份施舍，所以不仅发明了断头台并给刽子手发工资，还制造战争把无数血肉之躯送上战场。然而，我还是要感谢大自然有关生与死的无私的施舍，它教会我们要节制贪欲。因为有了这份免费的死亡，我们可以在有生之年积极行善，至于除恶的事情交给大自然就好了。 好的观念将人带上康庄大道，坏的观念让人万劫不复。当一个国家被一种坏的观念所笼罩，这个国家也就开始了它的灭顶之灾。日本当年就是这样一步步从“明治维新”滑向“一亿总玉碎”之疯狂的。在这里，“意义猛于虎”。许多人受意义的激情驱使，最终又被意义吞没。 人类尚未形成。虽然我们名义上同属人类这一物种，并置身于所谓的人类文明之中，但人类从来没有真正生活在同一个世界里。误解与被误解，施虐与受虐，征服与臣服，同胞与异类，只要“我者-他者”这个模式一直存在，人类就永远有两个世界的挫折。

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.

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.

1964 film by Mikio Naruse

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.