An older Japanese man reflects on his past and learns more about the American culture through small encounters with strangers on a train.

A Japanese businessman reflects on his experience with Chinese people and longs to visit China.

The life of a young Japanese man becomes intimately intertwined with his deceased best-friend's girlfriend, as they each navigate the past in search of lost time.

A Japanese man has to borrow his unpopular friend's unused funeral suit as five of his young friends suddenly die over the course of a year.

In an airport terminal, a former boxer recounts to his coworker about the time he punched a classmate outside of the ring and the traumatic events that transpired.

In contemporary Japan, a poor young woman finds a new approach to life in her new job: accompanying a widowed professor on trips, dressed as his dead wife.

Following his breakup, a Japanese college student uses savings from his relationship as a means to quit his summer mowing job, but not without first helping a woman who asks, but doesn't appear to need, for her lawn to be mowed.

A Japanese woman who has begun to forget her name, frantically seeks the help of an eccentric clinician who eventually claims to know what happened to her name.

A twenty-two-year-old male tutor gives various women feedback on their writing in letter form. When he quits his job, he visits one of his former correspondents for lunch at her apartment.

An unmarried Japanese woman recounts how a pair of pants was the breaking point in her parents’ marriage.