Grandmother
Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysterious spirits in the form of old women.
Reflejo de la vida cotidiana japonesa desde el fabuloso mundo de una Geisha, mujer que tradicionalmente trae suerte a los hombres. (FILMAFFINITY)
Takashi Ōgaki
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
Grocery Store Owner's Wife
Una mujer empieza a trabajar en una oficina de impuestos. Su primer caso será investigar a todo un especialista en evadir impuestos. La historia se complicará por la simpatía que le despierta el supuesto delincuente.
A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.
Shizue
Yuki Kimura, a company president's secretary, agrees to marry his son Yutaka on the president's recommendation. When Yutaka breaks up with his lover, a hostess, she implies she's going to commit suicide. In a panic to get to her quickly, Yutaka punches a man at a taxi stand. The next day, when Yutaka's lover hears the news about a man dying and realizes it was the man Yutaka punched, she demands money...
Cuenta lo que le puede pasar a una familia japonesa, cuando uno de sus hijos les avergüenza delante de toda la nación.
Koharu
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san falls in love with the old woman's daughter, but winds up acting as a go-between for her and a young law student.
Kagari's mother
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living National Treasure ceramist. At his home, Tora-san makes a good impression on the old man's maid, who apparently falls in love with Tora-san.
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all his ex-classmates, he resumes his travels. In Kyushu he meets an outspoken 18-year-old girl who becomes enamored of Tora-san and follows him around. One of Tora-san's old friends is terminally ill and makes Tora-san promise him to marry his wife once he is gone.
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.
Un extraño busca trabajo en la granja donde vive una viuda con su hijo pequeño. La atractiva madre trabaja duro y aprecia que su nuevo empleado sea de la misma condición. A medida que pasa el tiempo se empiezan a crear lazos afectivos entre ellos.
Stepmother
A la Reina le ha entrado el deseo de tener un ramo de flores, sin embargo, es invierno, por lo que no hay flores bonitas ahora mismo en el bosque. Por eso ofrece una gran recompensa a quien le traiga dicho ramo. Dos hermanastras egoístas envían a una muchacha de buen corazón a los nevados bosques para buscar las flores a la Reina...
Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up to Tora-san.
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with a young waitress.
Witch (voice)
Una joven muchacha debe estar seis años realizando trabajos para salvar a sus seis hermanos, quienes han sido convertidos en cisne por una malvada hechicera. Pelicula que se enmarca dentro de la serie "Sekai Meisaku Douwa" que realizó la Toei entre los años 1977 y 1982, y que constaba de cinco peliculas a una por año, siendo la del año 1980 la que nos abarca, y correspondiendo las otras cuatro a Los Cisnes Salvajes "Hakuchou no Ouji" (Año 1977), Pulgarcita "Oyayubi Hime" (Año 1978), El Lago de los Cisnes "Hakuchou no Mizuumi" (Año 1981), Aladino y la Lampara Maravillosa "Aladdin to Mahou no Lamp" (Año 1982), todas editadas en España a principios de los años 80.
This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and, being that they are farmers and always busy and not rich, question the wisdom and feasibility of such an idea. A spokesperson for the acting troupe Ms. Kono lays out the whole thing and they must decide. You get little slices of rural life in Japan far, at least in sentiment, from Tokyo. The best thing about this film is that it has heart. The acting is good, but it is really about the simple storyline of outing on a show. Films rarely get made with such simplistic plots these days. Enjoy this little slice of what city people call “the simple life”.
A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and directed by Ishii Teruo. The friendship between two men on death row, a fleeting love affair with a traveling dancer and a deadly battle with the real culprit who has hunted him down filmed over a long period of time on location in Hokkaido.
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.
Chahal (voice)
La historia narra como el valiente y joven Hols cumple con la última voluntad de su difunto padre, buscar su pueblo, que años atrás fue arrasado por el demonio Grunwald. Sólo la Espada del Sol podrá acabar con el demonio y para ello necesitará la ayuda de los hombres, comprendiendo así Hols la importancia de estar unidos... Primera película dirigida por Isao Takahata, contó con Hayao Miyazaki como máximo responsable de la animación y Toei Douga la estrenó en cines japoneses en 1968, llegando a EEUU durante los años 80 bajo el nombre de "El Pequeño Príncipe Nórdico Valiente" (Little Norse Prince).
Tomi (Jun's mother)
En Kawaguchi, al norte de Tokio en la década de los 60, esta sencilla historia narra la vida de los pobres trabajadores de una fundición y sus familias, y los sueños de superación de una chica a través de la educación superior. (FILMAFFINITY)
(uncredited)
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Kaji, un japonés pacifista, trata de librarse del servicio militar aceptando un trabajo como supervisor laboral en las minas de la Manchuria ocupada. Kaji se dedica a mejorar las pésimas condiciones de vida de los prisioneros, pero sus esfuerzos son despreciados por el jefe del campo de concentración. Un día, el odio acumulado estalla y tiene terribles consecuencias.
