In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.

《源氏物语》是日本的一部古典文学名著，对于日本文学的发展产生过巨大的影响，被誉为日本文学的高峰。作品的成书年代至今未有确切的说法，一般认为是一００一年至一００八年间，因此可以说，《源氏物语》是世界上最早的长篇写实小说，在世界文学史上也占有一定的地位。

本书是村上春树随笔系列之一，共48篇。内容大致可分两类，一是关于作者本人的，如他的家庭情况、个人爱好习性、早年的生活和创作、成名后的趣闻逸事，一是作者对社会问题的种种看法和议论，如关于选举、大众阅读、人到中年、健康及电影、音乐等。有许多篇是两者兼而有之，作者把自己亲身的经历体验与世相百态结合起来，夹叙夹议，既见解独到，幽默生动，又亲切随意，真实可信，体现出村上春树特有的无拘无束、异想天开的风格。

芥川龙之介(1892—1927)，日本新思潮派代表作家，创作上既有浪漫主义特点，又具有现实主义倾向。以其名字命名的“芥川奖”成为日本文坛的重要奖项之一。作品以短篇小说为主，多为历史题材，情节新奇甚至诡异，以冷峻的文笔和简洁有力的语言让读者关注到社会丑恶现象，这使得他的小说既具有高度的艺术性，又成为当时社会的缩影。《罗生门》是其代表作。本书收录芥川的中短篇小说共十三篇。《罗生门》以风雨不透的布局将人推向生死抉择的极限，从而展示了“恶”的无可回避，第一次传递出作者对人的理解，对人的无奈与绝望。书山稗海，文史苑囿，于中沉潜含玩，钩没抉隐，一日发而为文，自是信手拈来，随机生发，纵横捭阖，不可抑勒。由庙堂高官到市井小民，由紫宸之深到江湖之运，其笔下无不呼之即来，腾跃纸上。芥川生性敏感，一般来说，他不重描绘而意在发掘，疏于叙述而工于点化，少的是轻灵与潇洒，多的是沉郁与悲凉。这点不难从其作品中窥其一斑。

2012 anime film directed by Yasuichiro Yamamoto

日本狂銷三十萬冊的筆記術奇蹟
一元化管理新技巧，超越傳統厚重筆記的新技術，打造專屬自己的隨身資料庫
輕薄A6筆記本，讓你把資料放進口袋，一本筆記走天下
不應該是由人去配合筆記本，而是可以隨心所欲使用才對！
簡單容易的筆記活用新技巧，讓人人都可以做到，還能夠「搜尋」，讓你可以隨時檢索資料，讓筆記成為個人的強大資料庫。任何A6大小筆記本都可以，價格便宜，更不需要繁瑣的步驟就能達成。
難以使用．一般筆記術缺點：
1）步驟複雜，難以仿效也不易持續
2）無法隨身攜帶，不夠便利
3）分成太多本，根本無法好好整理
4）價格昂貴，試用後不喜歡也不能退
5）即使經過分類，不會加以利用也無意義
決勝關鍵．這樣才叫筆記術：
1）字要可以大大寫，才大氣！
2）攜帶力夠強，才方便！
3）不用分類、所有資訊都放進去，才爽快！
4）要價十元、隨時都可購買到，才貼心！
5）擁有搜尋功能，才有力！
五大優點，一口氣克服所有筆記術的問題，不管是行程、計畫表、心情、資訊、靈感……想得到全部都可以寫進去，簡報、名片、傳單……也通通都放進去，不用加以分類。然後忘記，清空腦子的記憶體，讓生活更輕鬆，等到需要時再拿出來使用，才是筆記的王道！

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

2001 Japanese anime film directed by Satoshi Kon

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.

2006 anime film directed by Satoshi Kon

When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.

The plot follows Mimiko, a bright little girl left alone when her grandmother leaves on a trip. Making a few stops at some local stores, Mimiko comes home to her house in a bamboo grove and finds a baby panda named Panny sleeping on the back doorstep. She quickly makes friends with the little panda, and invites him in for a drink. His father, PapaPanda, soon comes to visit, and they decide to become a family after PapaPanda offers to.

1997 Japanese film by Takeshi Kitano

大家好，我是池田曉子，是一位職業插畫家。獨自住在將近八坪的套房（26平方公尺），由於是住家兼工作室，所以房間裡可說是髒‧亂‧到‧極‧點，甚至髒亂到根本不敢讓親朋好友看到。前五年的時候，我偶爾還會嘗試動手整理，沒想到最後是一次比一次更髒更亂，我實在不願意讓別人覺得……
有一個衣衫不整、其貌不揚的「腐爛女」住在這個世界超級無敵髒亂的屋子裡，所以，我開始思考：如果我再繼續髒亂下去的話，我的人生恐怕將會一塌糊塗，如果我再不好好整理房間的話，我的人生也會跟著一片黑暗。所以，我把全部的改造過程寫成血淚交織的奮鬥史，希望能夠與各位讀者共同分享、勉勵嚕！

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

2006 film by Shūsuke Kaneko

2008 film by Fumihiko Sori