1998 film by Shunji Iwai

story by Japanese dramatist Kōki Mitani. It made into a movie

Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his auto repair shop, though now he shares his home with Junnosuke, an orphan he's taken under his wing at the urging of pretty Hiroi, who continues to manage a nearby tavern. Chagawa dreams of publishing a successful novel and settling down with Hiroi and Junnosuke, but his day job running the candy store keeps him busy, and Hiroi mistakes his tight schedule for a lack of interest in her. Hiroi has also embarked on a secret career as a burlesque dancer, which isn't doing much to improve her opinion of men. At the Suzuki household, seven-year-old Ippei isn't happy to be sharing the house with a guest, his distant cousin Mika who is the same age but far more demanding. Mutsuko, the apprentice female auto mechanic, is still staying with the Suzukis, and she's becomes the object of the affections of Takeo, a downbeat young man who is studying cooking.

2011 anime film directed by Yasuichiro Yamamoto

KEN（妻夫木聪 饰）是日本高三学生，作风懒散叛逆成为所有老师的眼中钉。他有两个死党同学山田正（安藤政信 饰）和岩濑学（金井勇太 饰），亦是问题少年，他们的口头禅是“解放少女”，喜欢偷窥女生做操，追求漂亮美眉。三人甚至成立了一个“伊亚亚”俱乐部，举办 演唱会，拍实验电影，请心仪的女生来担任主角。
拍摄那天，他们干脆在学校天台挂上横幅“想象力正在夺权”。原本只是出于拍摄和追女仔需要的一帮少年，此时以外引发了一场骚动，成为了一次误打误撞的革命运动。风雨再大，少年们仍然自觉胜利，他们心中的实验电影还在继续呢。

"名字被写在这个笔记本上的人会死"
死神琉可拥有这样的死神笔记本，却将它遗失在人间。天才高中生夜神月捡到这本笔记本，本以为是恶作剧的他，在笔记本上写下了电视中播放的罪犯的名字，确认了笔记本能力的真实性。厌倦腐朽世界的夜神月使用笔记本的力量，开始杀死犯罪者，以此希望建立一个没有犯罪的美好理想世界，而自己成为“新世界的神”。
连续罪犯死亡事件，吸引了全世界警察的目光，更吸引了世界第一名侦探L的注意，L能否将被崇拜者称为“基拉”的夜神月逮捕？
一本死神的笔记本，拉开了天才与天才之间卓越巅峰的头脑战争的序幕。本已对人间失去兴趣的琉可，在旁观惊心动魄的斗智过程中感叹“人类，真有趣。”

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.

In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she gives up her loner ways and joins a gang of explorers. Even if she finds the gateway to the next level, will she ever be able to come back to reality?

While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.

2001 film by Shunji Iwai

2004 film by Shunji Iwai

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.

A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.

《世界尽头与冷酷仙境》是村上春树最重要的小说之一，与《挪威的森林》、《舞舞舞》合称为村上春树三大杰作。小说共40章，单数20章“冷酷仙境”，双数20章为“世界尽头”，这种交叉平行地展开故事情节的手法是村上春树小说的特征，而这部作品是这种特征最典型的体现。“冷酷仙境”写两大黑社会组织在争夺一个老科学家发明的控制人脑的装置，老人躲到了地底。主人公“我”是老人的实验对象，他受到黑社会的恐吓，在老人的孙女帮助下，经过了惊心动魄的地底之旅，好容易找到老人，却被告知由于老人的计算错误，他24小时后离开人世，转往另一世界即“世界尽头”。“我”回到地面上, 与女友过了最后一夜告别，然后驱车到海边静候死的到来。“世界尽头”是另一番景象，这里与世隔绝，居民相安无事，但人们没有心，没有感情，没有目标。“我”一直想逃离这里，但在即将成功时选择了留下，因为“我”发现“世界尽头”其实是“我”自己造出的。书中想象力奇特，艺术水准高超，情节极其荒诞而主题极其严肃，用变形的手法写出人们对当代资本主义社会的混乱现状逃避无门的真实心态。

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.