A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm interaction between her and adults that grew up with the rough history of Okinawa and discrimination from the mainland. Shots partly on location at beach of Itoman, Yogi Park and Hateruma Island. This is the movie version of the well-known novel by Kenjiro Haitani.
Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a young boy who has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.
Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone in the office, she's spotted rolling up her pantyhose by the window cleaner Kurata Katsuo. This was to be their first encounter. Completely enchanted by Kumi, Katsuo does everything he can to get close to her. Katsuo is a man with a terrible past. With the death of his coal miner father, his family was broken up and he was forced to follow in his father's footsteps laboring away in the mud. In spite of this, Katsuo still has dreams. He dreams of living in Resiporuko, a utopian fantasyland that exists only in his imagination. When Katsuo and Kumi finally meet they find themselves unable to communicate. Katsuo spends all his time talking about Resiporuko with a starry look in his eyes, while Kumi dreams of living the high life in the city. One day when the two travel to the seashore, they discover a wounded seagull.
도쿄 올림픽을 앞둔 일본. 미국을 동경하는 다쓰오는 작은 클럽에서 허드렛일을 하며 가수의 꿈을 키우지만 현실은 그리 만만하지 않다. 그런데 평소 다쓰오가 형님으로 모시던 다카시가 모종의 계획을 세우자 다쓰오는 자세한 내용도 모른 채 이를 도와준다. 알고 보니 다카시는 금고의 돈을 훔치려는 것이었고, 다쓰오는 어영부영하다 계획에 깊이 연루되고 만다.
1958년 성매매 금지법이 시행되자 다수의 성매매 여성들이 보호 및 재활 시설로 옮겨진다. 모범적인 모습을 보인 구니코는 부인회의 후원을 받아 가게를 운영하는 부부의 집에 머물면서 일을 돕기 시작한다. 그러나 그녀의 과거가 드러나자 사회적 편견과 차별에 끊임없이 시달리게 된다.
