Reiko Mori

Misuzu Hara (Nao) works as a high school teacher and prefers to keep a distance from her students. In her past, she was raped by her best friend’s boyfriend Hayafuji after he found out she liked him. She didn't report the crime to the police and she didn't tell anyone else what happened. She still suffers from the trauma from what happened, but she continues to have a forceful relationship with Hayafuji who is now her best friend’s fiancee. One day, a rumor spreads that her student Yuki Niizuma is in a secret affair. Misuzu Hara, as his teacher, has a meeting with him to provide counseling.

Aşk, kaçırılan fırsatlar ve geçişken kimlikler, İranlı auteur Abbas Kiarostami'nin Cannes'da yarışan son yapıtının ana çatısını oluşturuyor. Toskana'da geçen bir aşk öyküsünü anlattığı Certified Copy / Aslı Gibidir'in ardından Kiarostami bu kez Japonya'da, insanı şaşırtan, tuhaf bir ilişki üçgenini gözlemliyor. Eskort kız Akiko ile emekli profesör Takaşi'nin ilk karşılaşmaları pek beklenildiği gibi sonuçlanmaz. Bu ilk buluşmanın arkasından işin içine bir de Akiko'nun maço erkek arkadaşı girince bu üçlünün üstlendikleri roller arzuları, talepleri, yakınlık ihtiyaçları doğrultusunda 24 saat boyunca değişip durur.

Yaşadığı travmadan sonra intikam peşine düşen eski bir polis, bir yakuza örgütüne sızmak için grubun en dengesiz üyelerinden biriyle arkadaş olmak zorunda kalır.

Kanichi works at wet tissue company in Mito, Japan. He runs into Gondo. 10 years ago, Gondo was fired from his job as a teacher for secretly filming others. He is now with Mihari who works as a hostess. He took away her away from Tokyo. Kanichi falls in love with Mihari at first sight and takes her away from Gondo. Meanwhile, due to a female student on the video Gondo secretly shot, an unexpected disturbance is created.

Madoka meets her husband's parents, who run a 450-year-old hand fan shop in the center of Kyoto. Together with her artist friend Anzai, they start an essay manga about the traditional shops in the area. On Madoka's first day minding the store alone, she ends up giving an interview to a TV crew and angering quite a lot of people by being a bit too candid. While Madoka is enamored by Kyoto, she has quite a lot to learn about the unsaid rules and the passive-aggressiveness of the local proprietresses.

Young at heart Akiyama is a manager at his company and has lots on his mind working at a manufacturer of washroom facilities. Naturally he relieves his day-to-day pressures and satisfies his fantasies by checking out the women he meets on his way. On occasion his fantasies combine the women (plural) that he comes across. Can he act on them?