Michi Tsunotani
초고령 사회로 접어들고 노인 인구가 너무 많아지자 일본 정부는 ‘플랜 75’라는 정책을 시행한다. 75세 이상 노인의 경우, 국가가 나서 안락사를 권장하는 것이다. 의료비와 사회보장 지출 등 노인을 부양하는 비용은 증가하지만 그들이 경제에 기여하는 바는 부족하다는 인식이 이런 정책을 가능하게 만든다. TV에선 안락사를 선택해서 행복하다는 증언이 나오고, 정부는 안락사를 선택한 노인에게 마지막 여행과 장례를 지원해준다.
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
15살 코우키는 부모님의 이혼으로 자유로운 영혼의 뮤지션 아빠 카즈키와 단둘이 함께 살게 된다. 아빠는 고등학교 3년 동안 매일 도시락을 싸 줄 것을 약속하고, 대신 코우키는 학교에 빠지지 않고 등교하기로 약속한다. 아빠의 도시락이 때로는 시한폭탄이 되기도 하고, 때로는 절친을 만드는 계기가 되기도 한다. 하지만 1년을 유급하여 한 살 어린 친구들과 같은 반에서 생활하는 것도, 부모님의 이혼도 적응이 안 되는 코우키는 방황을 하기 시작한다.
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)
고등학교 1학년 여름. 외딴 섬에서 가출해, 도쿄에 온 호타카. 그러나 생활은 곧 곤란해졌고, 고독한 나날의 끝에 겨우 찾아낸 일은, 수상한 오컬트 잡지의 작가 일이었다. 그의 앞날을 시사하는 듯, 연일 쏟아지는 비. 그런 가운데, 잡담으로 북적거리는 도시 한 편에서, 호타카는 한 소녀를 만난다. 어떤 사연을 안고, 남동생과 둘이서 밝고 씩씩하게 사는 소녀, 하루나. 그녀에게는, 이상한 능력이 있었다. "저기, 지금부터 맑아질 거야." 조금씩 비가 그치고, 아름답게 빛나는 거리. 그것은 기도하는 것만으로, 하늘을 맑게 하는 힘이었다.
Yukiko
세 명의 자식은 독립, 인생의 말년을 고양이 한 마리와 함께 생활하는 부부 마사루와 유키코. 평온한 매일을 보내고 있다─고 생각했지만, 갑자기 유키코가 딸 나호코에게 「헤어지려고 생각 중이다」는 말을 털어놓는다. 그러던 어느 날, 기르던 고양이 치비가 모습을 감추는데……?!
Taki Nunomiya
타키는 도쿄의 교외에 위치한 작은 붉은 지붕 집에서 하녀로 일한다. 세월이 지나 노인이 된 타키는 작은 집에서의 기억을 회상하며 당시의 이야기를 적는다. 아름다운 사모님 도키코와 그녀의 남편, 그리고 사랑스러운 아들의 평화로운 가정 생활, 거기에 감춰진 사모님의 안타까운 사랑. 타키가 죽고 난 후 그녀의 친척 청년 다케시는 그녀의 유품을 정리하다가 봉인된 편지가 들어있는 봉투를 발견한다. 이로써 60년 동안 철저히 감춰진, 붉은 지붕 아래서 일어난 은밀한 비밀이 밝혀지는데...
Kotoko
일년 중 가장 특별한 날, 크리스마스. 도쿄에서 펼쳐지는 로맨틱한 러브 스토리들이 온다! 새로운 사랑이 시작되는 순간부터 그리움으로 간직했던 첫사랑과의 재회까지 사랑이라는 이름의 다채로운 모습이 펼쳐지는 크리스마스를 앞둔 도쿄의 로맨틱한 풍경. 불가능할 것만 같은 일들도 가능해지는 하루! 당신의 심장을 두근거리게 만들 설렘 가득 러브 스토리들이 시작된다!
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
수많은 영화와 드라마로 만들어진 자토이치의 마지막이 될 영화로 자토이치가 부인과 함께 평범하게 살기 위해 고향에 내려가지만 어쩔 수 없이 다시 검을 들게 되는 과정을 이야기 한다.
Bee
나를 쉬게 하고 싶다면 이곳으로 오세요! 소원을 이루어준다는 '달무지개'를 보러 하와이 북쪽, 호노카아 마을에 찾아온 레오는 여자친구와 다투고 이별을 맞는다. 이후 호노카아를 다시 찾은 레오는 작은 영화관에서 일하며 과묵한 극장 주인 버즈와 먹보 에델리 부부, 괴짜 요리사 비이 할머니, 여배우를 동경하는 고이치 할아버지 등 독특한 매력을 지닌 마을 사람들과 친해지게 된다. 젊은 시절 남편과 사별한 비이는 고양이밥을 몰래 먹은 레오를 위해 매일 정성스런 식탁을 준비하고 자신의 요리를 맛있게 먹는 그를 보며 기쁨을 느낀다. 한편 이국적이고 아름다운 머라이어에게 첫눈에 반하게 된 레오, 비이는 그런 레오를 보며 알 수 없는 감정에 사로잡히게 되는데…
Hatsuko Nogami
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.
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
키타기리 무네조는 어머니와 누나, 그리고 키에와 함께 행복한 생활을 하고 있었다. 어머니가 돌아가신 후, 누나도 하급무사에게 시집을 가고, 키에 역시 혼담이 성사되자 무네조는 번에 들어가 서양 전술을 배우기 시작한다. 그러던 어느 날, 어머니의 3주기를 맞은 키타기리는 추모 모임에서 돌아오던 중 키에가 쓰러졌다는 소식을 듣게 된다. 창고에서 키에를 발견한 키타기리는 그녀를 자신의 집으로 데려와 간호하고, 예전과 같은 행복한 생활이 시작된다. 그러나 무네조의 친구인 야이치로가 반역의 주동자로 극형에 처해지자 스승인 토다는 무네조에게 비검인 오니노츠메를 전해주는데...
Sophie (voice)
19세기 말 마법과 과학이 공존하고 있는 세계 앵거리. 소피는 돌아가신 아버지의 모자상점에서 쉴틈없이 일하는 18살 소녀이다. 어느 날 오랫만에 마을로 나간 소피는 우연히 하울을 만나게 된다. 하울은 왕실 마법사로서 핸섬하지만 조금 겁이 많은 청년이다. 황무지 마녀는 두 사람의 사이를 오해, 주문을 걸어 소피를 90살의 늙은 할머니로 만들어 버린다. 가족을 걱정한 소피는 집을 나오게 되고 황무지를 헤매다가 하울이 사는 성에서 가정부로 낯선 생활을 시작한다. 4개의 다리로 걷는 기괴한 움직이는 성 안에서 하울과 소피의 기묘한 사랑과 모험이 시작되는데...
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)
밀림의 왕 ‘레오’와 부인 ‘라이야’ 사이에서 태어난 아들 ‘르네’와 딸 ‘루키오’의 탄생으로 밀림은 온통 축제 분위기다. 한편, 인간 세상에서는 미지의 에너지를 품고 있는 돌인 ‘월광석’을 찾기 위해 ‘햄 에그’를 중심으로 탐사대를 결성해 월광석이 있다고 알려진 루나산을 찾아 떠난다. 하지만, 햄 에그 일당은 루나산을 찾기 위해 닥치는 대로 밀림을 훼손하고 동물들을 해치는 등 악행을 일삼고, 이로 인해 밀림에는 각종 자연재해와 전염병이 닥치는 등 동물들은 큰 위기에 처한다. 한편, 레오의 아들 ‘르네’는 밀림의 홍수에 떠밀려 인간세상으로 나가게 되고, 서커스단에서 인기 스타로 활약하게 된다. 하지만, 밀림에 전염병이 돈다는 소식이 알려지며 르네는 가족들에게 위기가 닥쳤음을 알게 되는데… 밀림의 동물들을 지키기 위해 목숨을 건 길을 떠나는 레오 인간 세상에서 밀림의 위기를 알게 된 ‘르네’ 과연 이들 부자의 운명은…?
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)
서풍에 의해서, 어떤 섬에 떨어진 유니코.이 마을에서는 인간에게 버림받아 원한을 품은 마법사 쿠쿠루크와 그의 수제자 돌비와 함께 인간들을 돌로 만들어 자신의 섬에서 성을 쌓는 재료로 만들어버리는 복수를 할때, 돌비의 동생 제리와 유니코가 함께 (1부의 꼬마악마도 가세해서) 마법사에게 도전한다.
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 the Unicorn has the amazing power to make anyone he meets happy. Whether it's because of his personality or the powers of his horn, no one knows. However, the gods become jealous of Unico, thinking that only they should be able to decide or allow people to be happy. Unico is banished to the Hill of Oblivion, and the West Wind is ordered to take him there. She can't stand giving this fate to Unico, so Unico's adventures begin, as the West Wind takes him from one place and time to the next, in a neverending journey to escape the wrath of the gods.
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
The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn wind.
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
The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life. If she puts a yellow handkerchief on the window, it would mean that she wants him back at home.
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
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling for his artist sister.
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
On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. They cherish the deepest affection for this piece of land they call home, and the simple life they lead. But rapid industrial growth makes it all but impossible to continue their chosen living style, and they are forced to leave their beloved hometown in search of a brighter future. But their hometown lingers on their hearts, and they dream of a time when they may once again return.
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
After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.
Sakura
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura. Meanwhile, a new tenant moves into Toraya restaurant.
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
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
Sakura
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
Sakura
Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sakura's chance to marry someone, as well as just being a real pain to those around him. There is a sentimental side to him also, and the best way to describe him is that he grows on you.
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
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
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
