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Hiding out after a burglary, three young thieves take shelter in an abandoned general store, and a letter asking for advice drops through the shutter, written decades earlier, when the old owner answered every one.
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
In a cramped basement café in Tokyo, one particular seat lets a customer travel back in time, as long as they keep to the rules and return before their coffee goes cold; four visitors take the chance to see someone again.
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
In a Kyoto building that isn't on any map, the Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul sees only the patients who manage to find it, and its doctor sends each of them home with a prescription: a cat.
The Lantern of Lost Memories
In an old-fashioned photo studio between life and death, Mr Hirasaka helps the newly departed look back over their lives through a lantern of memories and step back into one moment to photograph it again.
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
Five Tokyo residents stuck at turning points in their work and lives find their way, one by one, to a community-centre library, where the librarian, Sayuri Komachi, hands each of them an unexpected book and a small felted gift.
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
Burned out by her high-flying career, Yeongju opens a small bookshop in a residential Seoul neighbourhood and slowly gathers a barista, a knitting regular, a lonely teenager and others who need somewhere to be.
The Second Chance Convenience Store
When a homeless man returns the purse she lost at Seoul Station, Mrs Yeom, a retired teacher who owns a struggling convenience store, offers him the night shift, though he remembers almost nothing about himself.
Marigold Mind Laundry
Jieun, born with powers she couldn't control, has lived many lives searching for the family she lost, and now opens a laundromat in a village of marigolds where people can wash the stains of painful memories from their hearts.
Sweet Bean Paste
Sentaro, an ex-convict working off a debt at a Tokyo dorayaki stall, reluctantly hires Tokue, a woman in her seventies with misshapen hands, and her homemade bean paste starts drawing customers to his counter.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Satoru and Nana, the streetwise stray he took in, set off in a silver van across Japan to visit the old friends who might give Nana a home, for reasons Satoru keeps to himself.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
When her boyfriend tells her he is marrying someone else, Takako quits her job and moves into the dusty room above her uncle Satoru's secondhand bookshop in Tokyo's Jimbocho book district, a place she has never cared about.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Twenty-four stories from across his career, among them a waitress granted one wish on her twentieth birthday and a monkey in Shinagawa that steals people's names.
After the Quake
Six stories set in the weeks after the 1995 Kobe earthquake, about people shaken by it from a distance, including a bank debt collector whom a giant frog recruits to save Tokyo from a worm underground.