Life Can Be So Wonderful
Genres
Overview
Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
70 min
Release Date
2007-09-15
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Vote Count
2
Vote Average
7
Ryuhei Matsuda
Shuichi
Reina Asami
Tomoko
Akira Emoto
Haeo
Mikako Ichikawa
Kanoko
Hitomi Katayama
Mayumi
Hana Kino
Shizue
Miyuki Matsuda
Noe
Toshinori Omi
Customer
Kyooko Tooyama
Hostess
Kōta Kusano
Daisuke
Ryo Segawa
Kuniro
0.0
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6.0
A Midday Picnic
A family who are uncomfortable together, but worry about each other goes on a sudden camping trip. A group of youths who have no idea about their future and live crumpled lives go on a trip. A single person who thinks it's alright to be alone goes on a trip as well.
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6.5
New Year Blues
Four different couples have a romantic week over New Year's Eve. Both coming out of failed marriages, Ji-ho and Hyo-young are not open to the possibility of new love, while Jin-ah heads to the other side of globe and encounters Jae-hun.
2021-02-10 | ko
5.9
New York, I Love You
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, into Tribeca, and Brooklyn as lovers of all ages try to find romance in the Big Apple.
2008-09-06 | en
5.3
Dilema
Dilemma is an omnibus film, five stories that depict dark side of Jakarta's underbelly. Jakarta's underground world that seldom to talk about, and forgotten by most of the people.
2012-02-23 | id
6.6
Sad Movie
These intertwining stories about romance and separation follow a firefighter who can't find the right time to propose, a shy theme park worker who falls for an artist, an estranged mother and son, and a man seeking to regain his lost love.
2005-10-20 | ko
6.0
Sorry and Thank You
An impossibly cute and thoroughly touching omnibus of 4 short fillms about how humans can elevate their own relationships through bonding with animals - featuring some of the cutest puppies and kittens ever on the silver screen!
2011-05-26 | ko
6.8
Paris Je T'aime
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
2006-06-21 | fr
6.5
Some Other Stories
The film is a high-concept project with five stories exploring the themes of motherhood and pregnancy, directed by women filmmakers from five former Yugoslav republics. “Croatian Story” follows an anguished painter who must decide whether or not to keep one of her unborn twins, diagnosed with Down syndrome. “Serbian Story” finds an expectant mother in the same emergency room with a charming killer. “Bosnia-Herzegovina Story” centers on a financially strapped Sarajevo family whose son?s lover is pregnant. “Macedonian Story” unfolds in a clinic where a drug addict struggles to keep her baby, and “Slovenian Story” ends the omnibus on a humorous note with a nun who finds her own way to immaculate conception.
2010-07-18 | sr
6.5
To Each His Own Cinema
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2007-10-31 | fr
3.8
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
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2011-12-22 | en
5.0
Today, Together
Ji-eun finds breaking up very hard. Min-jeong just wants a happy day. Soo-jin is struggling for a normal life. Hye-ri and Min-yeong are in a complicated situation…
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10.0
Skopje Remixed
An omnibus of ten short films by ten young directors.
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5.1
Short Plays
Football seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world.
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6.6
Oki's Movie
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2010-09-16 | ko
6.0
Women Play Twice
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2010-03-01 | ja
7.1
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During Ireland's War of Independence, a five-year-old girl sets out to save her village from the English army by trying to enlist the help of the rumored Black Swordsman, who only takes books of a certain genre as payment.
2002-05-02 | ja
6.1
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
1964-12-31 | en
4.6
Panama Canal Stories
Five shorts spanning a century on lives impacted by the Panama Canal. Men, women and children who are influenced by the existence of the "Canal", the event that changed the history of not only a country but the world.
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7.2
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