Takayoshi Watanabe

Tsuneo Shoji has finally reached retirement age, but his wife feels sick when she sits in the passenger seat of the car due to her husband's illness, and his daughter says, "Husband's disease!"

Traces the rise of the company Suzuki Shoten from the 1880's to 1919. After the death of her husband, Yoni Suzuki and her general manager built the company from a small sugar importer into Japan's largest trading and manufacturing company.

A collection of shorts spun off from the movie "Night Time Picnic" that take place on the day before the movie's events. On the last day of high school, ten young people explore their feelings while participating in a "walking festival" in which 1000 people walk 80 km over the course of the day. This collection includes 9 episodes by 6 directors, including "Murishi" starring Mikako Tabe and "Unrequited Length" starring Rosa Kato.

Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company "Theatrical Company Hono" in Fujieda City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where the presiding officers and performers are composed of elderly women. They have been performing stage plays about issues related to the elderly for a long time.

Based on the comic by Hiroyuki Yasuda

Shibata and Tategami are Japanese journalists hiding out in the Lost City Night Club to elude the triads. Shibata falls in love with the club's hottest singer, Cora, but is hampered by his disguise - as a woman. She in turn loves Tachikami, who is gay, and desires Shibata.

Attending the funeral of one of his friends, Satoru sees a woman who looks exactly like his deceased wife Shizuko. The film mixes reality with death and parting, when the ghost of the deceased wife chases her husband.

One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if she dies, he will never remarry. Thinking she is just being dramatic, he promises and tells her to go to sleep. When he wakes the next morning, however, Shizuko is dead. Sotaro keeps his promise, until one day he meets Satoko. The two quickly fall in love, and agree to get married. Their first night together, however, is interrupted by Shizuko, who is angry over her husband's broken promise. Sotaro and Satoko must find some way of appeasing the spirit before she drives them from their home.

A young man finds out that his ex-lover has only one week left to live, and with the help of angels, he scrambles to change his fate. A love story in which popular actor Yuji Oda starred in 1992 during his big break.

Meet Chika. She thinks she's been jinxed: she's going to be dumped on Christmas Eve. Enter Tomako, who likes reading and making pudding. Although they're total opposites, by a twist of fate, they become best friends. However, it turns out they both want to spend Christmas Eve with the same guy. Will they choose friendship? Or love?

Romantic comedy about a school teacher.

The story revolves around a hardcore Onyanko Club fanatic who decides he wants to kill the girls to prevent the young, cute idols from getting old and married - in a sense, to preserve their youth for eternity.

Aochi, um professor universitário de alemão, encontra com seu antigo colega Nakasago quando viaja de férias para um vilarejo à beira-mar. Nakasago vive como nômade e é perseguido por um grupo local, acusado de ter seduzido e assassinado a mulher de um pescador. Depois que Aochi resolve a situação do amigo com a polícia, os dois jantam e conversam sobre a vida, acompanhados pela gueixa Koine. Seis meses depois, Aochi volta para visitar o amigo e descobre que ele está casado com Sono, uma mulher incrivelmente parecida com Koine. Repentinamente, Nakasago foge com Koine, abandonando Sono, que está grávida. Mas tudo pode ser sonho, delírio ou realidade. Acompanhando a trama, a peça musical “Zigeunerweisen” (1878), de Pablo de Sarasate, toca com insistência. Primeiro filme da “trilogia de Taisho,” que faz referência ao Japão dos anos 1910-1920, foi vencedor de quatro prêmios da Academia Japonesa em 1981, incluindo os de Melhor Filme e Melhor Diretor.