The sales department of the insurance company Elephant Insurance. Komori, a rookie salesman who can't get a contract, was yelled at by General Manager Gonda almost every day. On the other hand, Gonda was lenient towards Minami, whose contract was similarly stagnant. That's because Minami was Gonda's affair partner, but she was also treated rudely by the director.
In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He can’t draw the extinct wolf well and struggles to develop the story. One winter’s day, Sosuke finds an animal’s skull while digging foundations at a construction site and takes it home. Is it a Japanese wolf’s skull?
After her mother's death, Kotomi does not leave the house. Her older sister Ikumi hides her worries about Kotomi behind a hard shell and has a few unorthodox methods to encourage their independence. Participating in the Kiryu City Miss ’local election is one of them.
A poignant moral dilemma unfolding against lush mountainous landscapes, The Albino’s Trees follows Yuku (Ryohei Matsuoka), an animal control hunter who takes on a lucrative job to kill a rare white deer considered to be a god of the forest by a nearby village. Though Yuku initially steps up to the task in order to support his mother’s medical bills, his will begins to falter as he gets to know the villagers and the reasons behind their difficult choice to live as outsiders.
One day, 300 year-old Namahage is caught in a trap. While being transferred he manages to escape. Wandering through the suburbs of Tokyo, Namahage meets 11-year-old Mamoru and he moves in at the boy's house without Mamoru's mother's knowledge. Mamoru struggles to hide Namahage from his mother. Meanwhile, bad pet shop traders seek out to capture Namahage.
Akira Okuda worked as an assistant at the Visual Concept Planning Department of Kanagawa University of Arts, accomplishing his work aimlessly without passion. Sorrounded by students who continually caused problems and professors who cared only about their position in the university. One day, three students attempted to steal film equipment from the vault. Fearing the news would reach the university office, the professors ordered Akira to cover up the attempted theft. But, little did he know more was about to happen...