Marie-Lou Fontaine, director of a nursing home in the Paris suburbs, defies convention by adopting the 'Humanitude' method despite her team’s resistance. Her encounter with Mari Morisaki, a terminally ill Japanese playwright, transforms her life. Together, they turn the facility into a symbol of resistance and humanity against the system’s limits.

Hamaguchi wrote and directed this film as a graduation project for the students at ENBU Seminar (film and theater school in Tokyo) when he taught there. It is a three-part film: The first part is a documentary-style production of a play; Then the actual full stage production of the play; and the epilogue. Poetry and written words play the central role in the movie.

The first part of a trilogy focusing on the northeast Tohoku region, co-directed by Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke. Impromptu interviews were carried out with disaster victims mainly along the Sanriku Coast, which had been ravaged by tsunamis several times prior to the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, and makes emotional discoveries within dialogues between close-knit people including families and workmates.

濱口竜介と酒井耕が共同監督を務めた東北記録映画3部作の第2部「なみのこえ」の気仙沼編。2011年3月11日の東日本大震災で津波被害を受けた三陸沿岸部に暮らす人々の「対話」を集めた前作「なみのおと」の完成から1年以上にわたって撮影を続け、宮城県気仙沼市に暮らす7組11名の対話を記録。震災から約1年を経た中で、被災した人々が家族や友人、仕事仲間たちとの会話を通して震災の記憶を呼び起こし、思いを新たにしていく様子を映し出す。

The third part of a trilogy focusing on the Tohoku region that is comprised of dialogues with victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Ideas on how to share experiences of the disaster with future generations, a challenge touched upon in the previous films The Sound of Waves and Voices from the Waves, is found in folk tales from the region. Co-directed by Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke.

濱口竜介と酒井耕が共同監督を務めた東北記録映画3部作の第2部「なみのこえ」の新地町編。2011年3月11日の東日本大震災で津波被害を受けた人々の「対話」を捉えた前作「なみのおと」に続き、震災から約1年を経た被災者たちが、家族や友人、仕事仲間たちとともに当時の様子やその後について語り合う姿を収める。岩手県から福島県におよぶ広範囲で取材を行った前作に対し、本作では地域を福島県相馬郡新地町に絞って6組10名の対話を収録している。

技術的な諸々の難点を除けば（これは大学の映研で撮られた8ミリ映画なのだ）、濱口竜介が既に濱口竜介であることが驚異的だ。的確な演出とショット割り。映画と映画内映画の関係を複雑かつ緻密に構成した脚本。しかもここには、若さと仲間との親密さから来る瑞々しさが溢れている。約10年振りに観られる幻のバージョン。

Yuzo and Mitsuki live together in Yuzo's small apartment, their constant companionship tender and indifferent in turn. Then Yuzo receives a call from Satsuki, a documentarian resolved to make a film about a now-distant family tragedy, and the three meet, to search for some way to account for their relationship with one another, the memories they share, and those they've kept to themselves.

自从初恋失踪以后，朝子便失去了生活的目标。两年后，她遇到了一个外形与恋人几乎一模一样的男人。她被这种奇妙的相似所吸引，却逐渐感受到这个年轻男人拥有截然不同的性格。

A young couple's announcement of their engagement to their friends is followed by a series of interactions and conflicts that forces everyone to reflect on their lives.