Shin'ichi Ichikawa

政治家や官僚、元軍人の知識人などが、それぞれの立場で第2次世界大戦の体験を語る座談会を書き記した同名ノンフィクションを文士劇スタイルで映画化。かつて映画化もされた半藤一利の原作に基づき、出演者たちの戦争体験も交えて構築する。各界からユニークなキャストがそろい、弁護士の湯浅卓や作家の島田雅彦、ジャーナリストの鳥越俊太郎や田原総一朗らが座談会メンバーを熱演。彼らの話から終戦間際の混乱と真実が伝わってくる。

畠山家の次男・直光は、兄・信綱、大納言家の娘であり許嫁である阿古姫と暮らしていた。彼らが成人して間もなく大納言一族が死去すると、将軍・足利義政は、阿古姫と婚姻し大納言家の財産を受け継いだ者を管領職に就かせると宣言する。陰謀により畠山家を追われた直光は、阿古姫と山中へ逃げ込むが盗賊・多襄丸（たじょうまる）に襲われる。

余命わずかと宣告された主婦のとし子（永作博美）は、夫の健大（南原清隆）と二人きりで結婚当初に暮らしていた町を訪れる。死が訪れる日が来るまで、とし子は息子たちには病を隠し通そうと決めていた。一方、少年時代の友人に会いにきた佐藤俊治（筧利夫）もまた、死が訪れる日を迎えるためにこの町にやってきたのだった。

The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are Eisuke - the manga artist, Shoichi - the singer, Ryuzo - the novelist, Kei - the painter and Yuji – the 5th wheel (?). The friends spend the summer in pursuit of their own ideals of personal freedom - being able to do what they want. In the process of pursuing their dream they learn firsthand that however ideal it may seem, its not as easy as they think.

Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) has since become a master samisen player and woman of great elegance. Though not especially rich, she doles out money to street kids, in particular, a pretty young flower vendor named Oyuki, who becomes Aihara's godchild of sorts. Yet when a geisha (Reiko Takashima) from a rival red-light district insults Aihara and her brethren, she fights back. Soon an all-out geisha war looms. Dapper businessman and amateur scholar Tojiro Koga (Tetsuya Watari) appears on the scene and defuses tempers -- suggesting that difference be settled through a competition of artistic abilities. Smitten with her talent and mature beauty, Koga invites Aihara to record Nagasaki folk songs before they disappear forever

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.

Takayuki Iwabuchi (Koji Yakusho), a former yakuza member with a tattoo of Kisshoten on his back. Although he has a criminal record, he is currently working as a driver at a hearse transportation company. One day, a young man visits the company and asks Takayuki to transport the body of his fiancé, Sawa (Shinobu Terajima), who had unexpectedly passed away, to her hometown in a rural area of Takamatsu, Shikoku. Takayuki decides to go to Shikoku with the young man, However, the man disappears when leaving to take a call while they are stopped at a rest area near Setoo Bridge. Left alone, Takayuki arrives at Sawa's home village after much searching. He then tells Sawa's bereaved family about the situation at her parents' house. There, he learns of the tradition of posthumous marriage, or 'Yukon', from the village elder...

渇き切った現代人の生活に、そっと忍び込んでくる孤独と幻想。お伽話といって笑えない不思議な時間と非現実な空間。第一回山本周五郎賞を受賞した山田太一の小説を、市川森一の脚色で大林宣彦が演出した異色作。妻子と別れた人気シナリオライターが体験した、異人である父母とのひと時のふれあいと、奇妙な出会いをした恋人との不思議な愛の幻想を描く。