Anata no Monogatari (Your story)Starring Konishi Manami
Story: One day, Mami comes across a 15-part video at the rental store about her life entitled "Anata no Monogatari" (Your Story). Mami realizes that the video contains footage of what happened so far in her life like the proposal from her boyfriend and how he subsequently broke up with her. However, when she wants to find out what happens after that, she realizes that Vol 9 had been rented out. As a result, Mami embarks on a search to locate that video...
Gentaiki Tokukouyaku (Instant medicine for fatigue period i.e. to cure boredom in a relationship)
Starring Yusuke Santa Maria, Inoue Waka
Takuya (Yusuke) has a wife Miyuki who cannot be considered as a beauty and because of the fact that they have been married for some time, he doesn't regard her as a woman anymore. One day, he comes across an instant medicine at the pharmacy which makes him imagine that Miyuki has changed into a beauty (Inoue) and this makes him extremely happy as his dependence on the medicine increases...
Maboroshi no Shonen (The imaginary/visionary boy)
Starring Kuroki Hitomi
Nahoko (Kuroki) is a career woman who has a doting husband and cute son. One day, she discovers that she is pregnant again. However, she realizes that it would be impossible for her to go back to work after her maternity leave and that this would affect her family's ability to repay the loan. As such, she contemplates having an abortion when strange things start to happen around her...
Bijokan (Beauty Can)
Starring Tsumabuki Satoshi
Yuta (Tsumabuki) who does temp jobs is left alone at home for the time being when his live-in girlfriend, Haruko goes on a business trip. A weird old man moves in next door and Yuta is puzzled by the fact that many beautiful woman keep visiting him in large numbers. His curiousity gets the better of him and Yuta breaks into the next door apartment to find "bijokan" (beauties in a can)...
Chakuri Net (Secrets Net)
Starring Suzuki An
Aya (Suzuki) is a senior high school student who loves sharing gossip/secrets among her friends. However, she keeps getting dissed by her friends for saying things which are not new to them thus Aya is quite unhappy at being left out of the clique. One day, she comes across a gossip website which is catered for those who love to know the secrets of others or wants to share a secret. Aya is attracted by this and signs up for the website. She starts to get engrossed in revealing and searching for the secrets of people around her...
Among the 5 stories, I would say that the entertainment value for most of them has attained the usual standard but the Kuroki Hitomi story is rather predictable and a bit boring in my opinion.
The Konishi Manami and Suzuki An stories were eerie and have the message of you are responsible for what you do. In the former's case, curiousity killed the cat while in the latter's case, she was going overboard which led to her downfall. Tsumabuki Satoshi's case has a tinge of ironic regret while Yusuke Santa Maria's story is quite entertaining. It's the only part which has a high humour factor as compared to the rest.
I won't go into the details on the story so please watch it if you can.
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