窪の短編集「水やりはいつも深夜だけど」に収録されている「かそけきサンカヨウ」は、家庭環境のせいで早く大人にならざるを得なかった高校生・国木田陽の葛藤と成長を描く物語。

2018 film directed by Kazuya Shiraishi

Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Taneda is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she's just not cut out to be a part of the real world.

In a valley, with a dense growth of trees, a baby is killed. The baby's mother Satomi is arrested as the prime suspect. The police also learn that Satomi is involved in a romantic relationship with her next door neighbor Ozaki. The information was provided by the neighbor's lover Kanako.

2015 Japanese film directed by Shingo Wakagi

Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.

有一天，一个男人因被贸易公司社长背叛而自杀。他的儿子和表弟发誓要向社长复仇，两人制定了周密的计画，准备完全犯罪，但是经验值零的两人，事情并不是那么顺利。要在哪里遇到？需要的物资？什么时候进行？

不走运的32岁单身主角桃地望（松坂桃李 饰），在工作上总是出包，没有出人头地与恋爱愿望。唯一的兴趣是在家里看最喜欢的漫画。
有一天，被最喜欢的漫画作者蟹釜ジョー本名唯月巴（麻生久美子 饰）解救在超市与客人纠纷。之后甚至被委托做家政夫的兼职，在不知不觉中变成了朋友以上恋人未满的关系……在一次桃地被唯月推倒的时候，婉拒了的她亲吻，但还是被邀请去旅行。但是等待着桃地的是唯月突然往生的消息，而且一位陌生的大叔（井浦新 饰）出现在悲伤的桃地面前，向他表示：我是巴。

After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child. Six years after adopting a boy they named Asato, Satoko has quit her job to concentrate fully on her husband and son. The family lives a peaceful existence until the arrival of a stranger.

Following the comic series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young and relatively inexperienced man comes across a woman during his working day and sparks fly.

2010 film by Naoto Kumazawa

Su-chan, Mai-chan, Sawako-san follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers. 34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings for the manager there. 34-year-old Mai-chan works at an OA machine maker. She is in a relationship with a married man. 39-year-old Sawako works as a web designer and also takes care of her grandmother. -san and her mother take care of her grandmother.

2009 film by Hirokazu Koreeda

film directed by Yukio Ninagawa

Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mountains to conduct a training camp. Ideology devolves into despotism, and the URA's leaders begin to arbitrarily persecute their followers, a harrowing ordeal that culminates in violence and murder.

2009 film directed by Florian Gallenberger

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their number, who returns for just a short period. For the first time in 25 years, Sonho is reunited with his family in Tokyo after being allowed to undergo an operation there. Sonho’s younger sister Rie is at the centre of the film, and is not hard to recognise as the director’s alter-ego. In her documentaries DEAR PYONGYANG and SONA, THE OTHER MYSELF, Yang Yonghi told the story of her own life, and how, at age six, she experienced the departure of her three older brothers, who left their family for Pyongyang.

On the third anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.