just another summer day (2022)
It was "just" a summer day spent with someone she didn't know, who was drunk and had lost her memory.
It was "just" a summer day spent with someone she didn't know, who was drunk and had lost her memory.
The film will be made up of two stories: "Ishi Okoshi" and "Ayashiki Raihousha." In "Ishi Okoshi," Natsume meets a small youkai called Mitsumi in a forest. Mitsumi is entrusted to wake up the divine youkai "Iwatetsu" from its deep slumber. Mitsumi weighs on Natsume's mind, so he sets out to help Mitsumi with his task. In "Ayashiki Raihousha," a mysterious visitor appears in front of Tanuma. Nearly every day, the visitor visits Tanuma, talks to him a little, and then leaves. Natsume, who knows the visitor is a youkai, worries for Tanuma, but Tanuma enjoys these exchanges with the youkai. The youkai means no harm, but Tanuma's health slowly starts to deteriorate.
A middle-class corporate couple doesn't worry about money and living expenses until the recession drains their finances.
Salvador lives a modest life. He works a 9-to-5 in a cubicle doing some accounting. His life is one of routine, but he has a knack for photography, which he won’t take up more than a hobby. His life decisions come into question once he meets Olivia, a code monkey at the same corporation. Through their budding friendship and a series of events Salvador is forced to answer the question, “Is quitting his day job and taking up photography worth the risk?”
Two conflicting high school friends get paired for a school project, leading them to unexpected encounters in their lives.
It is Friday the 13th in Ezpeleta, in the Buenos Aires suburbs. Like every Friday, Fer, Juja, Pepo and Robi meet after school to rehearse with their incipient punk band. Different conflicts and worries prevent them from moving forward and the rehearsal dissolves among tensions. Pepo tries to study but cannot concentrate. Juja deals with family chaos. Fer draws while catching up with her virtual friends. Robi thinks about her ex and realizes she needs his friends. They all come to the rescue and together they realize that friendship is a refuge.
Tamako graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako doesn't help her father or tries to get a job. She spends her time just eating and sleeping throughout the four seasons of the year.
A year has passed since Menma's ghostly return to the Super Peace Busters. Although the time they spent together during that summer was short, the five members reminisce about what happened as they each write a letter to their lost friend.
One day, three siblings receive a postcard from their mother who left them a long time ago. But all it says is "I miss you." Three siblings are disconcerted by the sudden contact, but eventually, they go on a trip to meet their mother.
Moshimo, Japan. The annual fireworks festival is about to take place and a group of schoolboys, arguing over whether they are round or flat when viewed from different angles, set out to find it out.
Amidst the pandemic, a woman embarks on a treacherous journey through the wilderness to reach her brother while grappling with her mental state.
The Orange is a drama about a lonely man reliving the night he met his soulmate.
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U's eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious, dragon-like figure appears before her.
After a chance encounter on the DC metro, Ryan and Julisa spend the next twenty-four hours discussing their hopes, dreams, and fears. Slowly but surely, they reveal more and more about themselves, and fall in love.
Junichi, a random guy has no job or place to live. He attracts women drowned in their lives giving them a moment of sparks and never stays at one place but leaving a little ripple.
The worldview of a young woman working as a girlfriend-for-hire begins to change after she returns a lost cat to its lonely owner.
Staying with an old friend in a new city, a former Olympian aims to let loose on his last day. All the while an important decision looms above his head…
Nikuko is a brash, jolly, scattered, and passionate woman in an otherwise sleepy seaside town in northern Japan. She’s also the single mother of 11-year-old Kikuko, who is her opposite in many ways. Kikuko is a string-bean of a young girl, pensive, quietly curious, and methodical in how she approaches life in this small harbor town. Nikuko embarrasses Kikuko as any mom of a preteen would, but Nikuko’s bold spirit makes her especially well-known in a town where Kikuko herself wants nothing more than to simply blend in. As Kikuko navigates the everyday social dramas of middle school, enhanced with touches of magical realism from her ever-present imagination, a shocking revelation from the past threatens to uproot the pair’s tender relationship.
A Warsaw-based Vietnamese cook struggles to fit into the European culture, which his ten-year-old daughter has already embraced as her own. A story about love, misunderstanding and food.
On this special night at a coin laundry, people of different characters meet to influence, inspire or change each other's lives.