, 1h15 Directed byJun Ichikawa OriginJapon GenresDrama ActorsIssei Ogata, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Rie Miyazawa, Miho Fujima Roles Hisako's Sister Rating71% The film starts by telling the story of Tony's father Takitani Shozaburo, a jazz trombonist from Japan, who spends the Second World War in China. Shozaburo is imprisoned and many of his fellow inmates are executed. He expects he will be executed, and he is shown curled up on the floor of his cell. However, he survives and in 1946 returns to Japan where he marries a distant relative on his mother's side. A year later they have a child, Tony, but Tony's mother dies three days after giving birth to him.
, 1h35 Directed byNorio Tsuruta OriginJapon GenresHorror ActorsHiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai, Maki Horikita, Kei Yamamoto, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tarō Suwa Roles Yujin Miyamoto Rating62% High school teacher Hideki Satomi (Hiroshi Mikami), his wife, Ayaka (Noriko Sakai) who works as a psychology teacher, and their five-year-old daughter, Nana (Hana Inoue) are driving home to Tokyo after a vacation. While on a country road, Hideki stops to upload a file on a phonebooth. Inside, he sees a newspaper scrap showing his daughter being involved in a car crash, dated just a minute later at 8:00 PM. As Ayaka steps outside to get Hideki's help on Nana's jammed seatbelt, a truck smashes through their car, killing Nana. A distraught Hideki tries to find the newspaper scrap when the media comes while Ayaka tearfully tries to stop him.