Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories are about a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person. The last one is set in Shanghai with a story about a Japanese man and a Chinese woman. Some of the characters can speak Japanese and some of them Mandarin. Each story encompasses an experience of a foreigner, either from Japan ,Taiwan or China, with a native of the opposite country.

Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.

1997 film by Ann Hui

Hong Kong native Lee Kay moves to NYC's Chinatown while attending college. When she learns that her boyfriend's cheating, her cousin comforts her.

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

1993 film directed by Nora Ephron

1988 film by Stanley Kwan

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

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.

A stylish urban romance about the silent suffering of a modern Chinese couple.

A young couple's love is tested when Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.

1998 film by Hur Jin-ho

小说的开始从“等一个人咖啡店”说起。等一个人咖啡店里人来人往，不同味道的咖啡正在被不同的人品味着，小小的咖啡杯里咖啡的光晕折射出每一个人不一样的爱情和人生，他们渴望爱与被爱，在谈笑风生中等待着自己心仪的那一个人。小说的主人公李思萤上小学时因上课小便失禁被嗤笑的抬不起头。直到有一天突然莫名其妙的发现自己不再被人讥笑了，她才步入正常人的生活。现在李思萤上高三了，在等一个人咖啡店打工。她心思敏捷，在细致地观察着来咖啡店喝咖啡的每一个人， 她先是被已有女友的翩翩君子交通大学大学生杨泽于的仪表堂堂和绅士风度所深深的吸引，杨泽于属于与女友喝咖啡只点“拿铁咖啡”，而自己独饮就点“肯亚咖啡”的那种，由此带有神秘咖啡喝法的杨泽于因此给李思萤播下了“暗恋”的种子。在这个时候，一个叫“阿拓”的人出现在等一个人咖啡店。阿拓是一个懦弱，经常被别人嘲笑的人，一个不喜欢喝咖啡的人。关于他的一桩“重大丑事”常常被人挂在嘴边也因此使他整天萎缩生活。李思萤开始也认为阿拓只是杯“白开水”，后来出于同情给予阿拓鼓励，让他重新生活在阳光里。于是，深陷暗恋痛楚的李思萤在纯粹的友谊里与阿拓交往渐多。渐渐地喜欢上李思萤的阿拓在认真地倾听李思萤的痛苦，并鼓励她勇敢地追求杨泽于。为了使李思萤快乐，阿拓带着李思萤去见很多身怀绝技的“江湖浪人”的搞笑奇怪表演，李思萤的愁苦被稀释，但仍然一心想着她的杨泽于，只认为和阿拓的交往是出于伟大的友谊。阿拓要远行非洲了，在他临行的那一天，看到自己喜欢的杨思萤终于开心地和杨泽于拉起了手，他也幸福的笑着离开了家乡。埋怨阿拓没有辞别的李思萤后来得知自己不再被嘲笑的原因是因为阿拓曾经狠狠地教训了传播自己丑事的散播者，她的眼泪像小溪流淌了，这才意识到自己在拯救阿拓以前早已被阿拓所拯救，阿拓才是她要等的那一个人！于是关于李思萤和阿拓的爱情故事才刚刚开始……

Ji-hae's friend is having problems expressing her feelings to the boy she loves, so she asks Ji-hae to write e-mails to him in her name. As the boy falls in love with her letters, Ji-hae discovers the story of her mother's romance which is remarkably similar to her own circumstances.

In the year 1999, a young woman leaves her quaint seaside house and returns to the city, leaving in the mailbox a card for the next owner, with instructions to forward any mail of hers to the new address. In the year 1997, a jaded young architect moves into the same house and finds the letter. His reply, which he slips into the mailbox, finds its way to her, beginning a parallel-time love story separated by a span of two years.

Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because the delightful Lucy has no short-term memory, so Henry must woo her day after day until he finally sweeps her off her feet.