Nobody talks about this one. A five-minute film where Shinkai does what he does best: finds the entire emotional weight of a life in a single room, a window, the way someone looks at their home. It's a stranger entering a space that doesn't belong to them, realizing they're witnessing something private and irreplaceable. No music swells. No dramatic camera movement. Just the quiet recognition that ordinary moments are the ones that matter most. Made for a real estate company, it somehow became more honest about what a home actually is than any dramatic feature could manage.

In near-future Japan, Aya Okamura has been working for two years and now lives on her own in an apartment, away from her family. Her mother has worked abroad as a doctor since Aya was a child, which leaves her aging father Kouji alone at home with their longtime cat, Mii-san. After an exhausting day, Aya turns down her father's dinner invitation by claiming she is still at work. Lying on her bed, she recalls the sadness of her mother's departure and the comfort she found when her father brought Mii-san home. That night a phone call brings sudden news that may draw the scattered family closer. This short drama by Makoto Shinkai was shown at a home living exposition in Tokyo in February 2013.