Ken Nakamoto

자칭 마을의 지혜자. 수완가, 간언자 스기와라(에이타)는 고향 요시오카로 돌아오자마자 자신의 말을 마을 사람들에게 빼앗겨 버린다. 사정을 알고보니, 마을의 부역이 늘어나 말이 필요했고, 마을 사람들은 조정의 부역으로 인해서 도망가는 사람이 속촐하고 있었던 것이다. 스기와라는 마을을 위해 걱정하는 코쿠다야(아베 사다오)에게 한 가지 비책을 내어놓는다. 바로 자신들이 조정에 돈을 빌려주고, 이자를 받아 부역에 부담되는 비용을 줄여보자는 것. 스기와라는 술 기운에 농담 삼아 내어 놓은 말이지만, 코쿠다야는 그 말에 큰 깨달음을 얻고 그 다음 날부터 자신과 스기와라(?)의 일에 동참하고자 하는 사람들을 모으게 된다. 코쿠다야의 숙부(키타로)부터 시작해서, 1인당 5백칸몬(약 3천만 엔)의 금액을 모으자는 코쿠다야. 그를 말려 볼 심산으로 스기와라는 조정의 관리인 주선인(테라와키 야스후미)에게 말을 해보자고 하지만, 그 일에 대주선인(치바 유다이)을 비롯하여 마을의 부자들이 하나 하나 참여하면서 일은 점점 커지게 되는데...

Goro is an archeologist, fascinated with the national treasure Gassho clay figure and remains from the Jomon period. He meets a woman, Momoko who is timid with love. Momoko often has memories from ancient times and landscapes of the heart in her dreams. She tells Goro about her dream and their relationship deepens.

Based on a short story by Seichi Matsumoto from 1956 and remake from the 1957 movie of the same name, the story is about an actor who has the opportunity to become a success but 9 years earlier, he had killed a woman with whom he was involved and there was an eyewitness to the murder.

Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.

다카타는 오랜 세월 동안 소원한 관계로 지내던 아들 켄이치가 병원에 입원했다는 소식을 듣고, 도쿄로 향하지만 켄이치는 아버지를 만나지 않겠다며 문병을 거부한다. 부자가 화해하기를 누구보다 바라던 며느리 리에는 경극 전문가인 켄이치가 촬영한 비디오테이프를 대신 건네며 위로한다. 돌아와서 비디오를 보게 된 다카타는 켄이치가 중국의 경극을 촬영하고 있었고, 당시 촬영하지 못했던 ‘천리주단기’라는 경극을 올해 다시 중국에서 촬영하기로 경극 배우 리쟈밍과 약속했음을 알게 된다, 때마침 켄이치가 간암 말기라는 비보를 전해들은 다카타는 병원에 누워 달력의 날짜만을 세고 있을 안타까운 아들 켄이치 대신 비디오 속의 약속을 지키기 위해 중국 운난성으로 향한다.

Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing.

Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.

Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation time left.

하얀 눈으로 뒤덮인 시골 마을 종착역, 호로마이. 평생 호로마이 역을 지켜온 철도원, 오토(타카구라 켄 분). 눈이 내리면 그는 고개 들어 눈송이를 쏟아내는 먼 하늘을 하염없이 바라본다. 지난 날 잃어버린 소중한 이들의 흔적을 찾아. 17년전 겨울 어느날, 철도 위에서 오토가 열차를 점검하고 있을 때 우유빛 고운 얼굴의 아내가 그에게 달려왔다. 아기를 가졌다며 기쁨에 어쩔 줄 몰라하는 천진난만한 아내, 시즈에(오타케 시노부 분). 오토의 넓은 어깨에 안겨 너무나 행복해하는 그녀를 오토는 포근하게 안아주었다. 오랜 기다림 끝에 태어난 딸에게 오토와 시즈에는 '눈의 아이'라는 뜻의 유키코란 이름을 지어줬다. 하지만 행복은 잠시. 유키코가 태어난 지 두 달 쯤 된 어느 날, 급작스런 열병에 걸린 아이를 데리고 병원에 갔던 아내는 눈처럼 차갑게 식어버린 딸의 시신을 안고 돌아왔고, 딸의 죽음을 지켜보지 못한 채 어김없이 역을 지키고 있던 오토의 가슴엔 깊은 상처가 자라나기 시작했다. 그리고 또다시 아내 시즈에가 깊은 병을 얻어 큰 병원에 입원하는 날도 오토는 역에 남아 슬프도록 맑은 눈으로 자신을 바라보는 아내를 홀로 보내고 말았다. 그렇게 떠난 아내마저 쓸쓸히 유키코가 있는 하늘로 가버리고. 오토의 정년 퇴임을 앞둔 새해 아침. 눈 쌓인 플랫폼을 치우고 있던 오토에게 낯선 여자아이 하나가 인사를 한다. 가슴에 인형을 안고 천진스레 웃고 있는 소녀는 처음부터 그를 알고 있었다는 듯 성큼 오토에게 다가오는데...

Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.

Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when they all shave their heads for her.

Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible Hama-chan. The veteran employee decides to find his boss, a divorced father, a new wife. The supervisor loves a bar hostess “mama-san,” but is unable to confess his true feelings until Hama-chan comes to his rescue.

When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan's fishing protégé.

Approached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking help. Hama-chan is away on a business trip, but Michiko entertains Su-san late into the night. When he gets drunk and ends up spending the night, Hama-chan, begins to question his boss's relationship with Michiko.

Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san's behalf in a case of mistaken identity.

Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his mother throws her back out.

A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.

Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo office. After settling in to his surrounding along with his wife Eri, Densuke befriends an elderly man named Ichinosuke Suzuki. Ichinosuke is a lonely and old man who learns to enjoy life again through his friendship with Densuke. Meanwhile, Densuke is completely unaware that Ichinosuke is the boss of his construction company. The two men become friends through their shared passion for fishing.

Chiaki Onoda a young assisstant sound mixer is unhappy with his job, but otherwise he is enjoying life. He loves his cat, his friends, hunting for girls and breakdancing in discos. A funeral forces him to return home and meet his familiy, which (espicially his father) disapprove of his lifestyle.

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.

A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside.

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.

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.

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.

A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family. He has a difficult time, but love survives despite the problems.

Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga.