Shunji Iwai

Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world: New York City.

After losing her fiance in a fatal mountain-climbing incident, Hiroko was devastated. She comes across his childhood address in a school yearbook and impulsively writes to him. But what happens when she receives a reply?

The problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chou's dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society.

When two best friends develop a crush on the same boy, they develop a plan to trick him into dating them.

The struggles of a group of immigrant outcasts living in an alternative-future, xenophobic Japanese metropolis.

In spring, a young girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo.

Alice transfers to a new school, where students believe that one student per school year is cursed, whom they call Judas Iscariot. Alice is deemed the new Judas, but what happened to the former Judas?

Nanami is an apathetic, part-time junior high school teacher, whose only solace comes from connecting with others on "Planet".

Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru, patients of a mental clinic who believe the world will end, escape from the clinic and search for a place to picnic so they can watch the end of the world.

Incompetent film set gopher Tomoya finds out that the girl he loved has died in a plane crash, after he e-mails a picture of a rainbow to her. While her family sets off to retrieve a body, he recalls the love affair they never rea...

It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the task of informing the deceased's friends of the death while the daughter canno...

Attending the reunion in lieu of her late elder sister, Zhihua accidentally runs into Yin Chuan, on whom she had a crush in her youth. As old memories are evoked Zhihua slowly uncovers the intricate story of the trio.

Freelance writer Aoi Teshigahara lives in Paris, France; photographer Sen Yagami came to Paris at his younger sister Suzume's insistence. Over the next three days, Aoi Teshigahara and Sen Yagami fall in love. Meanwhile, Suzume fin...

In the Great East Japan Earthquake, a young girl named Luca loses her family and is left with a disability that prevents her from speaking properly. She can, however, make her voice heard when she sings.

Hana is an ordinary high-school girl. One day, she dreams of a little girl who lived during the Sengoku era. When she wakes up, Hana is taken by a mysterious government agency run by people who are convinced her dreams can save th...

An actor who has lost his job due to the coronavirus buys capsule monsters online and begins to raise them.