Yoshiyuki Miyake

住民が出て行った希望カ丘開拓村に残る一軒の荒屋に住むユミエと娘エミコ。食べ物もなく餓死寸前となった2人はある計画を企て、美しく装い勧誘の電話をかける。やがて、ダムの工事現場で働く男がやってくるが…。

いちど見たらその個性的なキャラクターゆえに誰も忘れることのできない、戦後の日本映画界になくてはならない貴重なバイプレイヤーとして活躍した殿山泰司。自らを「三文役者」と称し女と酒とミステリ小説を愛しつづけた彼のことを、みなは親しみを込めて「タイちゃん」と呼んだ。1998年4月30日にその生涯を閉じた殿山泰司の俳優人生を長年の同志、新藤兼人監督が映画化したペーソスあふれる感動ドラマ。

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past

1879年、良家の長男として生まれ育った荷風。父の意向に反し早くから文学の道を志した荷風は、やがて玉ノ井の娼家でお雪と出会う。世の中の底辺に生きながらも清らかな心を持つお雪に、荷風は運命的なものを感じ57歳にしてついに結婚の約束をする。が、東京大空襲に見舞われた2人は離れ離れとなってしまう…。

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.

Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns out to have been murdered by two of his schoolmates, who he had been bullying.

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.