A student teacher is on her way to her first day at her new school when she meets a strange boy at the park, sitting by himself drawing in a sketchbook. When she gets to school, she sees that the boy is in her class.

The star of the swim team prepares for a tournament by training on his own at the school pool at night.

Rumi and her mother visit their grandmother's house where she takes notice to the cuckoo clock hanging on the wall at the exact time the little bird pops out.

A young couple, Shinichi and Satomi, arrive at a mall carnival that they remember their parents bringing them to.

Haruko overhears a story about the Handshake Men, mysterious men who show up on the roadside and ask people to shake hands.

Two teenage couples pull over at an abandoned house for a test of courage.

On a field trip with his school class, Osamu is having trouble getting to sleep because of a scary dream he`s been having.

Asako and Miki are enjoying a festival when Miki disappears. As Asako searches for her, she encounters a display of strange masks and the sound of mysterious voices chanting.

A young married couple on vacation gets caught in the rain, so when they pass by a Museum of Taxidermy, they decide to take a look inside.

Joyful laughter can often be heard coming from a certain hospital room, but patients are warned that it`s the hospital`s rule to never enter it.

Kenta and Machiko have moved into an old apartment, and Machiko is dismayed to find it infested with rats. Then Kenta leaves on a business trip, leaving Machiko there alone.

Two men are driving through the mountains when they take a wrong turn and get lost. To make things worse, they end up stuck in a tunnel when they run out of gas.

A young man is visiting a public bath house on his way home from work, when a mysterious, sweet voice from the women`s bath asks him to lend her one thing after another.