2 guys who are gay, one female who is lonely for someone to love. The woman approaches 1 of the guys and wants him to seed her would be child.
Both films are about Japanese ‘geek’ and his borderline obsessive/compulsive hobbies. The Mamiya Brothers are nerds, The male lead from "Train Man" is an otaku.
Lee Jung-In is a librarian who has been in a 4 year relationship with a banker Kwon Gi-Seok. Yoo Ji-ho is a Pharmacist and single dad who graduated a year behind Kwon Gi-Seok from the same University. After a chance meeting at his pharmacy, Ji-ho and Lee Jung-In start seeing love and relationships in a new light. Lee Jung-In meets Yoo Ji-Ho at the pharmacy when she goes there to remedy her hangover.
The influence of the kabuki theater in Japanese cinema has been fairly marginal, the assumption being that kabuki modes of acting and staging are generally unsuited to the cinema. Both films reproduces forms of kabuki as a central dramatic device. Oshima’s Diary of a Shinjuku Thief reproduces a primitive form of kabuki while Shinoda’s approach is more traditional.
Air Doll is based on the Japanese manga The Pneumatic Figure of a Girl and tells the story of a life-size inflatable doll used as a sex object for a lonely waiter who finds a heart and becomes a real person.
A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.
A young boy follows Tashiro home to his tenement housing complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, the boy who was separated from his carpenter father somehow and somewhere in Kudan. The father purposefully abandoned the boy as he went off to look for work.
A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.
A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europe trying to find themselves.
Good Morning also sees a pair of cute as a button brothers going on strike though theirs is one of silence rather than hunger and provoked by the desire for a television rather than just shock and disillusionment on discovering the unfairness and hypocrisy of the adult world.
Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.
