Yoshikazu Ōtsuki

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...

Japanese drama film.

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man...

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.

O filme se passa numa aldeia remota localizada na região das montanhas do Japão. Por conta da escassez de alimentos, o povoado cria uma política voluntária na qual parentes mais novos carregam seus familiares com mais de 70 anos de idade para o topo da montanha Narayama, onde são deixados para morrer. Orin (Kinuyo Tanaka) é uma senhora que está perto de se tornar septuagenária e começa a aceitar seu destino cruel. Seu filho viúvo, Tatsuhei (Teiji Takahashi), não consegue suportar a ideia de perder a mãe. Seu neto egoísta está feliz em saber que Orin irá morrer. Ao redor deles, uma família de ladrões é tratada com severidade pela comunidade e um homem de 70 anos, expulso de casa pelo filho, precisa mendigar por um pouco de comida.

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

Now an old man, Masao returns to his childhood home and begins to recall his upbringing in this abandoned sector of Japan.