各具风味的三姐妹

　　在民政局工作的陈二小（陈佩斯 饰）和舅舅（魏宗万 饰）是新旧两代白事工作者。陈二小的红白理事会提倡白事新办，响应法律号召推行火葬；他舅舅是位老资格的大了，坚决捍卫土葬风俗，与此同时向丧家放高利贷从中渔利。陈母（赵丽蓉 饰）年逾古稀，老脑筋一时无法转变。她生怕儿子将自己烧 掉，加上娘家哥哥煽风点火，陈母立逼着二小立下土葬的字据。　　寿辰前夕，二小的姐姐（丁嘉丽 饰）和姐夫（倪大红 饰）送来一口大红棺材祝寿，这让陈母的心事彻底了结。风水先生算出陈母须在农历九月期间躺在棺材里去阎王爷处报名，同时为了检验二小的孝心，陈母和哥哥想出假死的馊主意，由此也引出一连串惹人发笑的荒诞闹剧……

　　本片改编自曾获得读卖文学奖戏曲·剧本奖的松田正隆所著舞台剧，以不下雨的长崎夏天为舞台，讲述了主人公·小浦治（小田切让 饰）因儿子去世的丧失感而停止了人生时间的故事。被妻子惠子（松隆子 饰）抛弃的他，和妹妹阿佐子（满岛光 饰）留下的17岁侄女优子（高石明里 饰）开始共同生活，故事由此展开。治在惠子去接儿子牌位的时候隐约注意到了他工作过的造船厂同事阵野（森山直太朗 饰）和持田（光石研 饰），优子在打工的地方结识了前辈立山（高桥文哉 饰）。失去爱的男人，放弃爱的女人，以及不懂爱的少女。每个人在面对各自苦楚的同时，在如夏日沙石般干涸的心中，发现了小小的希望之芽。

　　一名年轻男子不请自来，参加学校的戏剧排练，以防一群老师和古怪的父母把他女友的儿子开除

　　Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.