Japanese drama.
Namiko Oguma
Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.
Kaoru Akiyama
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
Tamiko
Now an old man, Masao returns to his childhood home and begins to recall his upbringing in this abandoned sector of Japan.
