Michi Tsunotani
En Japón, en un futuro cercano, el envejecimiento de la población se acelera. El gobierno estima que, a partir de cierta edad, los mayores se convierten en una carga inútil para la sociedad e implementa el “Plan 75”. Dicho programa propone a los ancianos un acompañamiento logístico y financiero para poner fin a su vida. Una candidata al Plan 75, Michi, un reclutador del gobierno, Hiromu, y una joven auxiliar de enfermería filipina, María, se ven enfrentados a un pacto mortífero.
Rina
Set in the near future, Rina lives a wandering life and she meets Ema. Ema becomes a mentor for Rina and Rina begins to work for Ema. Her job is called body works, which is to plasticize dead bodies for people who lost loved ones. Meanwhile, Ema’s younger brother Amane develops technology that is finally able to achieve immortality. Rina becomes the first recipient of the technology. She can now live forever, while having a 30-year-old appearance, but ...
Natsuko Suzumoto
Kazuki Suzumoto is divorced and he lives with his 15-year-old son Kouki. Kouki is in a susceptible time. The father feels guilty about his son. Kouki then fails his high school entrance exam. In the spring of the following year, Kouki barely passes his high school entrance exam. Kouki mentions to Kazuki that he likes his father's lunch box. The father and son make a promise to each other. Kazuki promises that he will make a lunch box everyday for Kouki. Kouki promises that he will never skip school.
Sakura Suwa (Torajiro's sister)
The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo, Tora-san’s nephew, who runs into Izumi, his first love, whom he had once promised to marry. The familiar faces of Kurumaya Cafe, which Tora-san’s family ran in Shibamata, also return. Catching up with old friends, it is always their dearest memories of Tora-san which everyone shares on such occasions…
Fumi Tachibana (voice)
Tenki no Ko - En la actualidad, Tokio está experimentando lluvias que parecen interrumpir el ritmo habitual de todos los que viven allí sin fin. En medio de este aguacero aparentemente eterno llega la fugitiva estudiante de secundaria Hodaka Morishima, que lucha por mantenerse económicamente, terminando con un trabajo en una editorial de poca monta. Al mismo tiempo, la huérfana Hina Amano también se esfuerza por encontrar trabajo para mantenerse a sí misma y a su hermano menor. Ambos destinos se entrelazan cuando Hodaka intenta rescatar a Hina de hombres sombríos, decidiendo huir juntos. Posteriormente, Hodaka descubre que Hina tiene un poder extraño pero sorprendente: la capacidad de llamar al sol cada vez que reza por él. Con el clima inusual de Tokio en mente, Hodaka ve el potencial de esta habilidad. Sugiere que Hina debería convertirse en una "chica del sol", alguien que despeje el cielo para las personas cuando más lo necesiten.
Yukiko
Masaru y Yukiko han estado casados durante 44 años. Tienen tres hijos que viven independientemente de ellos. Masaru y Yukiko disfrutan de sus días tranquilos, pero, un día, Yukiko le dice a su hija Naoko que quiere divorciarse de Masaru.
Taki Nunomiya
Ambientada en los años anteriores a la Segunda Guerra Mundial nos muestra la vida cotidiana de una pequeña y humilde familia que vive en Tokio, la capital japonesa. La historia comienza cuando Takeshi encuentra una colección de diarios que escribió su ya difunta tía Taki Nunomiya. A través de esos íntimos escritos, tanto el joven Takeshi como el espectador, van conociendo la realidad que vivieron sus familiares antes de que estallase la guerra. En 1920 Taki es una jovencita que trabaja como doncella para la familia de los Hirai. Masaki, el padre, es el empleado de una compañía de juguetes y vive junto a su mujer Tokiko y su hijo de cinco años. Un día Tokiko recibe la visita de un viejo amigo, lo que provoca una aventura extramatrimonial. Mientras todo eso ocurre, Taki lo observa en silencio.
Kotoko
Un CEO que ha perdido la fe en el amor, una universitaria que está secretamente enamorada, una pareja que mantiene una relación a larga distancia, un huérfano que sueña con pasar las Navidades con su nueva madre, un padre con tristes noticias para su hijo, y una anciana que recuerda una promesa retrasada 49 años... Todas las historias se desarrollan con el telón de fondo de la estación de Tokio.
Ritsuko
Old Woman
A young Chinese Go board game player arrives in Japan for training. He doesn't speak Japanese and becomes embarrassed living there. By dropping his Go stones, he happens to meet an old Japanese woman who sells vegetables on the street. They become familiar with each other. The young Chinese Go player, the old woman named Igarashi and her grandson Shoichi then live together.
Mitsu
El masajista y espadacín ciego Zatoichi, decide que ha llegado la hora de dejar la carretera y establecerse con su esposa (Satomi Ishihara) en su pueblo natal. Pero, como de costumbre, los problemas le persiguen y Zatoichi es de nuevo provocado a luchar en una batalla en la qué serán tan importantes su ingenio como su espada oculta.
Bee
Leo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with Maray, an older Japanese-Caucasion woman.
Hatsuko Nogami
Drama familiar basado en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, situado en Tokyo en el año 1940. La familia Nogami tiene una vida pacífica pese a lo ocurrido últimamente, pero de repente el cabeza de familia, Shigeru, es acusado de ser comunista y es detenido por ello. Su esposa trabaja día y noche frenéticamente para poder dar de comer a sus dos hijas con el apoyo de Hisako, la hermana de Shigeru. La Segunda Guerra Mundial arroja horribles y fatídicas noticias, pero Kayo todavía guarda una última esperanza de que su marido vuelva algún día.
Tomoe Kakuta
Hiroshi, a 30 year-old businessman, has traveled back in time 20 years. He encounters Kazumi, a young woman who was gravely ill. Hiroshi regarded this as an opportunity to help the young woman from his past, the memory of whom he had always cherished.
Mrs. Katagiri
Japón, siglo XIX. El declive de la casta guerrera de los Samurai y de los Shogun ha hecho mella en el pequeño feudo de Unasaka, situado en la costa del noroeste del país. El samurai Yaichiro Hazama se marcha a la lejana ciudad de Edo para hacerse cargo de un puesto muy importante de la organización del clan, mientras sus amigos samuráis, Munezo y Samon, vuelven al lugar en el que Munezo nació y creció. A pesar de su modesto sueldo consiguen vivir una vida placentera en la casa de la madre de Munezo junto con la hermana pequeña de éste y la hija de un vecino que es granjero, llamada Kie, que trabaja en la casa como empleada doméstica y espera poder conseguir marido. Durante los tres años siguientes fallece la madre de Munezo, Samon se casa con la hermana de Munezo, y Kie se casa con el hijo de una familia acomodada de mercaderes, los Iseya.
Sophie (voice)
Sophie es una joven de 18 años que trabaja sin descanso en la tienda de sombreros de la familia. En uno de sus frecuentes paseos conoce al enigmático mago Howl, lo que despierta la ira de la Bruja del Páramo, que odia a Howl con todas sus fuerzas. Cuando Sophie vuelve a la tienda, la Bruja se hace pasar por una clienta para acercarse a ella y lanzarle un hechizo… ¡que convierte a Sophie en una anciana de 90 años! Sophie, que no puede revelar su auténtica identidad, recurre a Howl para buscar una solución a su problema. Para ello se embarca en un viaje fantástico en el castillo ambulante del mago, habitado por personajes de lo más curioso. Sophie necesita ayuda pero quizás sea Howl el que realmente está en apuros.
Sakura
Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san.
Lyre (voice)
En un futuro cercano, en un mundo cuyo medio ambiente está destruido, la ONU ha puesto en marcha la existencia de una Neo-Jungla dirigida por Kenzo Oyama. Se trata de un parque artificial en el que los animales salvajes pueden seguir viviendo. En ese ambiente prefabricado Leo, un joven león blanco, sueña con poder ser algún día como su padre, el poderoso Panja. Mientras, Kenichi, el hijo de Kenzo Oyama, que posee la extraordinaria habilidad de hablar con los animales, descubre que esa jungla en la que vive Leo y que él creía auténtica no es sino un gran simulacro.
A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films to the residents of his small town.
Sakura
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.
Sakura
Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a friend’s sister. Tora-san meanwhile helps an injured housewife on her yearly vacation.
Sakura
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring Mitsuo back home, himself falls in love with an attractive but troubled woman visiting her father.
Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Goto as his love interest or "Madonna".
Sakura
When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But Izumi unexpectedly meets Tora-san.
Sakura
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront him in Oita. Meanwhile, Izumi’s mother befriends Tora-san and together they travel to Oita to meet them, with Tora-san quickly falling for her en route.
Sakura
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.
Sakura
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts winning, she starts getting tired more easily. She is sent back to the American Base Victory Hospital, where the diagnosis is lymphatic leukemia. And she has no more than a year left to live. Her parents agree with the doctor that Sadako should not be told, but will she find out anyway ?
Sakura
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.
The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
Sakura
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as “daddy”.
Sakura
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested.
Sakura
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist.
Keiichi (Kenichi Hagiwara) is a weather man. He gets involved with two married women, Yoshiko (Mitsuko Baisho) and Miyoko (Chieko Baisho). Both want to divorce but are trapped in meaningless marriages. While being undecided of who he wants to chose, Keiichi witnesses passions boil to an unforgiving climax.
The environment and the movie stars at a Japanese film studio in the early 1930s are recreated in this drama that looks back on a distinctive period in cinematic history. Using celebrated director Yasujiro Ozu as a model, fictional director Ogata discovers a new female star quite by accident. Koharu Tanaka works selling candy at a studio theater when she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limelight when she replaces her in a film and gains instant fame and fortune. But the going is not always easy, and she soon seeks help from unexpected quarters.
Kimiko, Naomi's wife
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1970, Uemura also accomplished several "firsts". He was the first man to reach the North Pole solo, climb Denali solo, and float down the Amazon river solo. In the film, Uemura returns to Tokyo after a stint in Siorapaluk in Northern Greenland. In Tokyo, he reconnects with an old friend and, over coffee, shares his life story - from his days as a college dropout to his successful expedition to the top of Everest.
Sakura
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in work. Tora-san follows her to Shikinejima, and attempts to bring her back to her home. In doing so he encounters a school-reunion group who are traveling to meet their elementary school teacher, which is a reference to the film Twenty-Four Eyes by Keisuke Kinoshita. Tora-san joins them and falls in love with the teacher.
Sakura
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.
Sakura
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san to help find him, he falls in love with her, and secretly hopes the husband will not be found.
Sakura
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist.
Sakura
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thinking he's found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest's divorced daughter.
Sakura
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets a young woman in Niigata who, unbeknownst to him, is a popular enka singer.
The West Wind (voice)
En esta nueva aventura de Unico, basada en “Unico y el Reino del Sol”, el pequeño unicornio debe enfrentarse con el terrible brujo Kukuruku. El malvado hechicero ha extendido el terror entre sus vecinos, a los que transforma en muñecos que luego usa en la construcción de su castillo. Unico se ve envuelto en esta horrible situación cuando encuentra a Cherry, una niña que busca desesperadamente recobrar la bondad en el corazón de su hermano que se ha unido a Kukuruku como su ayudante.
Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the robbers' whereabouts.
Sakura
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.
Sakura
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.
Sakura
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.
Michio Kiriko
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
Sakura
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his family that he plans to marry her. His plans are foiled when the geisha informs Tora-san that she is engaged.
The West Wind (voice)
Unico, un pequeño unicornio blanco, tiene el poder de llevar la felicidad a todos los que le rodean. Los Dioses, celosos de su poder, ordenan al Viento del Oeste que le lleve a la Colina de Oblivion donde quedará desterrado y olvidado para siempre. Pero el Viento del Oeste se compadece de Unico dejándole en una isla que cree deshabitada, ya que allí no tendrá ocasión de utilizar su poder al no haber nadie a su alrededor. Pero no es así, en la isla habita Beezle, el Diablo de la Soledad, y el Viento del Oeste pronto tiene que volver a llevarse a Unico, perseguido por el Viento de la Noche. Le dejará en un lugar donde conoce a Katy, una gatita abandonada que gracias a la magia de Unico se transforma en una joven muchacha con la que vive una increíble aventura contra el Barón Ghost, un malvado demonio con la apariencia de un apuesto joven.
Sakura
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.
Sakura
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
Tamiko Kazami
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.
Sakura
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.
Sakura
Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.
Sakura
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya.
Sakura
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.
Sakura
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.
Mitsue Shima
Mientras conducen por Hokkaido sin rumbo fijo, una pareja de jóvenes -que acaban de conocerse- se encuentran con Yusaku, un tranquilo y reservado hombre de mediana edad al que aceptan como compañero de viaje. Poco a poco, irá revelándose el pasado de Yusaku, que acaba de salir de prisión tras cumplir condena por asesinato, y que intenta volver al hogar con su mujer. Si ella espera su regreso, habrá colgado un pañuelo amarillo en la puerta de la casa. De no ser así, él deberá dar media vuelta sin haberla visto...
Sakura
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.
Sakura
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother.
Sakura
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surprise everyone. Later, Tora meets Botan, a geisha.
Hideko Kono
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”.
Sakura
Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to study, he falls for Toraya's new tenant instead.
Sakura
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san.
Sakura
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again. During his travels, Torajiro meets a father who shares a drink with him. In the morning, Torajiro is shocked to learn that the man has left his baby behind and a note asking Tora to take care of the child.
Sakura
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow.
Sakura
La hermana menor de Tora-san, Sakura, invita a su tía y tío a un viaje de spa en el derecho de Kyushu cuando Tora-san vuelve a casa! Durante su estancia solitaria en su casa, determina para el tratamiento de su familia más agradable cuando regresen. Un día, Tora-san se encuentra con uno de sus antiguos compañeros de clase, y presenta a su hermana menor Ritsuko a Tora-san. Ritsuko provenía de una familia rica, pero ella insiste en ser un pintora y tiene que sufrir de la pobreza. Tora-san se siente atraído por ella, pero ella ya está enamorada de otro hombre.
Sakura
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
Sakura
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals for the affection of Chiyo.
Tamiko Ishizaki
En una apacible isla, Seichi y Minko viven transportando rocas a zonas de construcción. Pronto se verán afectados con la llegada de la revolución industrial...
Sakura
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
Sakura
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
Sakura
Tora-san regresa a su ciudad natal y se reconcilia con su madre Kiku, y comienza su vida como un errante nuevamente, hasta que conoce a Hanako, una joven inocente no muy inteligente que trabaja en una fábrica textil. Tora-san tiene la intención de ayudarla a regresar a su ciudad natal, pero Hanako termina trabajando en la tienda del tío de Tora-san.
Sakura
Una joven que ha escapado de una institución se enamora de Tora-san. Él decide casarse con ella, pero su familia y la maestra de la joven se oponen al romance.
Tamiko
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer.
Sakura
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.
Sakura
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.
Sakura
Tora-san regresa a su ciudad natal a instancias de su tío y su tía, pero una vez más causa caos y problemas para su gran boca. En un intento por hacer que se quede en casa y termine con su vida como vagabundo, la pareja de ancianos decide arreglar el matrimonio de Tora-san. Pero la reunión matrimonial nuevamente termina en vergüenza y la pareja de ancianos tiene que pagar la cuenta nuevamente. Después de una gran pelea, Tora-san está en el camino una vez más...
Sakura
Se descubre a Kuruma Torajiro buscando en Kioto a alguien especial para él.
Sakura
Tora-san, un vendedor ambulante, vuelve a casa después de veinte años para encontrar que sus padres fallecieron y su única hermana, Sakura, trabajando en una tienda de dulces locales y vive con su tía y su tío. Tora de mala gana está de acuerdo con el matrimonio previsto de Sakura con un pintor, pero sólo consigue arruinar el matrimonio cuando se comporta de forma escandalosa en la fiesta pre-boda. Sin darse cuenta se enamora de la hija de un sacerdote budista. Al enterarse de que ella ya se está preparando para su propio matrimonio, decide salir de su casa de nuevo para ocultar su disgusto.
A drama from director Masaharu Segawa.
A drama by director Masaharu Segawa.
Tsuruyo
The return of a man to Japan from Borneo creates chaos in a village.
新庄晴子
Haruko
Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a young man who committed suicide.
Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and she asks him to protect her and her diamond.
Eiko Takayama
A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.
After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.
Haruko Tachibana
The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.
Aiko
A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t know to have inherited a large sum of money from Switzerland.
Aiko Kazami
Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time.
Fumiko
The story of a selfless mother and her family throughout the decades, from th 1920's to the 1960's.
Taka
Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just tried to play with her like a sweet candy, but Taka fell in love with him. One day, the father-in-law suddenly dies, and the Kawashima-ya family fortune is rapidly changing. However, the depravity of Kichisaburo does not subside...
Gin Ishiwata
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry.
Kiriko Yanagida
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gave her. It is discovered that the pills contained poison. He is apprehended on suspicion of murder and taken away for interrogation, unable to defend himself - being deaf and dumb - or even to proclaim his innocence.
A musical romance.
Chigusa
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistress. Into the mix comes Oba Gunjuro (Tetsurō Tamba), a mysterious ronin who will do anything for money. This leads to a fitting climax as the forces of hate and love converge while the couple attempt to break through the border!
Yoshiko Sakawa
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Mototsugu becomes disgusted with such strait-laced living and leaves home to marry Yoshiko, a blind masseuse, and they live in a small apartment near a pinball parlor where he works.
Oshino
A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.
Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.
A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
Movie directed by Kunio Matoi
Miyoko Sekiguchi
Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out for a drive, the strangled corpse of a call girl is discovered in Toyamagahara. Chief Akagi, Detective Sergeant Sawada, and the other detectives begin to suspect Koji during their investigation. Koji insists he's innocent, but has no evidence to prove it. Even when detectives come to Miyoko's home and workplace and her coworkers begin to look down on her, Miyoko continues to trust and love Koji...
Yuko Nakajima
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
Japanese comedy film.
Yukiyo Aoki
Miyoko Ishikawa, Toshiyuki's girlfriend
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.
Saeko Hibino
Keiko y Saeko son una pareja de hermanas que ayudan económicamente a sus padres trabajando en una fábrica local. Además, tienen que aguantar la carga de un padre chapado a la antigua, que presiona a Keiko para que se case con un buen partido y así salve el negocio familiar. Ella se siente atraída por un compañero de trabajo pobre, pero también desea seguridad económica.
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol.
Harue
Japanese comedy film.
A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.
Kiyomi Nishihara
