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This is a story about a son who pursue his career as a comedian by forming a comedy duo with his demented father. "Kazuki, are you still doing comedy?" "Yes, I am. Right now!" The Abe family is a rice farmer in Nishikan Ward, Niigata. The first son, Kazuki is unemployed, living at his parents' house, and writing comedy plot everyday. One day, his father Yoji fell down from a stroke while he was practicing for the local comedy competition. While facing the severe reality of becoming a home helper to his demented father, his companion, Masakazu told him he is giving up on comedy. Struggling between his dream and the reality, childhood and adulthood, he decides to enter the competition as a comedy duo with his demented father. Can miracle happen on stage for the father who lost his memory and the son who finally made up his mind?

A collection of animation films inspired by Cavafis poetry made by students of the Musashino art University Tokyo.

It expresses that there is a connection between water and even the smallest unit of humankind - its cells.

A lonely biker-gang, "Ultra"'s head, So-cho, dreaming to become a hero, just turned twenty years old without knowing where he was going. He drove his motorcycle furiously running away from the real world to the Nishikan ward of Niigata prefecture, "Nishikan". No money, no gas, no energy left and down on the ground, there comes the old farmer "Kakaoji", luckily to him who brought him home. So-cho's life started spinning since they met while Ayaka, the daughter of Kakaoji, who ran away from Nishikan after being insulted by others about her rural home. Her love for Nishikan remains deep down inside, but she started living with her aunts in Tokyo. Having anxiety about her unknown future, one day she received an email. Two struggling young people finally find something precious. A story about youth in Tokyo and Niigata bring laughter and sorrow. An entertainment movie produced for real by the art students and the ward office.

Theatre company actor Kikutaro Oyamada makes his living providing a proxy service in which he pretends to be whatever role is asked of him. One day, a woman named Utsumi requests he play her wildlife photographer husband who has gone missing and spend time with her father-in-law over the New Year holiday.

A story about love and reconciliation between Yukari and her mother Shizue. They quarrel because of their huge difference in values and lifestyles. Yukari strives to reconcile, but the hidden rift between the two is yet to be healed.