1963 yılının Yokohama'sında geçen hikâyede, denizde kaybettiği babasının anısını yaşatmak için her sabah tepeye işaret bayrakları çeken lise öğrencisi Umi ile okul gazetesinin cesur genci Shun'un yolları kesişir. İkili, tarihi okul binalarını yıkımdan kurtarmak için gençlik coşkusuyla omuz omuza bir mücadeleye girişirken aralarında masum bir bağ filizlenir; ancak geçmişin tozlu sayfalarından aniden gün yüzüne çıkan gizemli bir aile sırrı, ikisinin de duygularını ve ortak kaderlerini büyük bir sınavla karşı karşıya bırakacaktır.
Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late into the night, Atsuya sees a letter in the mailbox. The letter is addressed to the Namiya General Store and the letter was written by someone to consult about worries. Incredibly, the letter was written 32 years ago. The mailbox is somehow connected to the year 1980. Atsuya and his friends decide to write a reply and place their letter in the mailbox.
After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his decision many times, but eventually after passing the training course, he is sent to Kamusari Village for a year of work experience - where he becomes assimilated with the beauty of nature and the warm-hearted people of the village.
A spell of time in the life of the five-piece Haruno family in rural Tochigi Prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.