Mado Karasumori

In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman—and his own path to redemption.

Drafted to shoot a new film, Tadashi Kobayashi, a director with festival marketability, is strong-armed by the studio into hiring two famous actresses as leads. The cast of self-unaware weirdos that constitute the budding players become increasingly overwhelmed and emboldened until they stage their own micro-revolution.

Emi (Reimi Miyamori) aspires to be an actress, despite living in a rural town. In order to participate in an audition held in Tokyo, she pairs up with Hasegawa (Yuto Endo), who belonged to the same drama club as her in high school.

Just before their honeymoon, Sugamoto and Aoki break up. Sugamoto decides to bury her lost emotion by going on the determined honeymoon trip alone. The journey's end is a remote town famous for being a suicide hotspot, a place where the spirits of those who took their own lives roam around without finding a way to the afterlife. In this chaotic space where humans and ghosts meet, traces of the past abound, but maybe all these give them the strength to start a new chapter in life.

Maki finds out that she is pregnant. She enjoys a gentle pregnancy, but one day, as the due date approaches, Maki is hospitalized. She undergoes a prenatal diagnosis to confirm the safety of her child and the results are negative. Maki is relieved, but when the time comes to give birth, the baby is born with an incurable disease.

An ambitious amphibian sea-creature wants to venture into the human world. Her dream to evolve into the perfect individual is so strong that she overcomes the physical boundaries of her fish-body and transforms into a human being. But even as a young woman she remains restless. Will she ever be content?