Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

寺庙住持的独生子井上广树是个酷爱摄影的高中二年级学生，而母亲达子总是嘱咐他做作业、练钢琴，让他十分不耐烦。他爱慕着隔壁女校的橘百合子，总在放学后用望远镜看她弹钢琴，因其寂寥的神情，广树将其称作“寂寞人”。庙里大扫除的时候，广树和朋友们不小心弄乱了母亲少女时代的照片。
第二天，班上出现了一个奇怪的女同学，外号叫作“寂寞人”。同学们到广树家玩，“寂寞人”和达子发生口角，奇怪的是打了她，达子反而会感到疼痛。广树终于抓住机会结识了百合子，两人相处甚欢。然而情人节那天，广树却收到了百合子要求分手的信。同时，“寂寞人”也来拜访向广树告别。两天后，达子在走廊上拣到一张自己16岁时的照片，广树一瞥之间竟发觉照片上的正是“寂寞人”……
大林宣彦监督「尾道三部曲」第三部，本片根据山中恒的小说《有点奇怪的她》改编，讲述了一个甘美青涩的青春幻想故事。

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons.

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always encloses money in her letters to him, until one hard winter there is no work to be found.

In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.

When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound.

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions.

Based on the famous novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is a story of the four sisters of the ancient and reputable Makioka family of Osaka.

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?