There is an old love hotel in Tokyo's Shinjuku district where couples can rent a room by the hour for romantic assignations. However, few of its regular customers seem to come there for sexual encounters; the hotel has become a hangout for rootless teenagers, senior citizens looking for a place to relax, and kids that play under the watchful eye of its owner...
A visit to the employment office, practicing dance steps, making music with friends: several women’s everyday lives are captured in long shots and with a superb sense of place. A film like a summer's day, bright, friendly, with the occasional chill.
One summer day, Tokiko, whose life in Tokyo is going nowhere fast, gets on an overnight bus to the countryside. When she arrives, she meets Yohei, a high school student struggling to deal with the sudden death of a young man who was like a big brother to him.
A man who has lost his memory returns to his hometown and encounter several people from his past and present.
The family of 20-year-old Ohta is celebrating his birthday in a restaurant. What was supposed to be a happy familiar reunion turns into a big mess.
Kawamoto works and lives in a dilapidated pool hall which also serves as a rehearsal space for him and his friend Chikako. They seem contented to while away their hours doing nothing much at all. Meanwhile, an old pool shark meets some people from his past that he is none too happy to see again. How will this affect their private haven?
The day before summer vacation. Yoko who tastes Tallow of the third year high school student will move to Hokkaido. However, with my grandpa's selfishness, she returned from the station and decided to live at the house next to Tallow! To the feeling that should have been sorted out, the fire is put on again.
A seemingly ordinary preparatory school student Kishida who seemed to have raped her with a girl who seems to be prostituting while seemingly sending an ordinary high school girl high life is tied up with some kind of strange relationship.
Thirty-year-old, unemployed Kenji (Kaku Tomohiro) spends his days listlessly at his parent's home, which is set to be torn down any day now. He relives his childhood when a third grader out for summer vacation nails Kenji with a water balloon, and Kenji fights back.
A young girl lives an isolated existence surrounded by stuffed animals with which she engages in long conversations, until one day she meets a mysterious and dangerous cyclist with whom she ends up having more in common than expected.
A story after 100 years from now. A man, Komori who could not receive education and lived by the flow of life came to attend a funeral in a small town that is remote. So, by chance I meet Uchida who is a childhood friend. He is growing up as an intelligent man with a realistic ambition of "conquering the universe."
A village in a different world that I do not know anywhere. There are five laws in the village, and if you break that rule you will be punished. The driver of the bus with the synonym of "Bengal's Tiger" attempts to escape from the village with two friends, but failed five times. By the instruction of the computer of "city", memory is erased as punishment. After that, the village steadily got dominated by the computer of the "city", and the driver of the bus who lost his memory kept living calmly while being watched by the lover. Meanwhile, a guerrilla group had been expecting the collapse of computer control.
With her father dead and her mother hospitalized, Futami lives with her grandmother suffering from dementia. Then a friend, who just ran away from home, comes to “visit” Futami. Winner of the “1st 16mm Film Production Assistance Award”, which preceded the PFF Scholarship award .
