Kanji Tsuda

The cautious friendship between Stefan Busch, known to everyone as Buschi, and Mr. Hideo Kitamura begins on this special road trip. Buschi, who has refused to speak with his fellow human beings his entire life, blossoms on this journey to unknown places.

A woman writes a letter to a young man, leading to a correspondence with his father that unveils the truth of a 24-year-old high school romance, his son's death, and the power of love letters.

Three high school girls spending their final summer in the drama club. A woman who longs for the sounds of the town and tries to stop time. A fisherman living while facing an inevitable generational change. A man who has moved to the town and grows vegetables while waiting for spring. The sounds of everyday life they create are gentle and quiet, yet the sounds that flow there exist only in that town, and they are also sounds that stir everyone’s memories.

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.

Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.

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

When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.