A treasure appears in front of antique dealer Norio Koike (Kiichi Nakai) and potter Sasuke (Kuranosuke Sasaki). The treasure is Hideyoshi Toyotomi’s chawan (procelain tea bowl) called Houou, that has been missing.
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The central Kansai region of Japan is the setting for the historic cities of Sakai and Kyoto. Noda and Koike from We Make Antiques are back and together for the tea ceremony by Furuta Shigenari who is the master of the ceremony. Enter a mysterious new woman named Shino about whom the two have a feeling.
Ichi Ishida
Yamashita Takako works in the food section of a department store. She pays frequent visits to a reputable local Chinese restaurant about opening an in-store branch. The owner of the restaurant, Wang Qingkuo from Shanghai, who does all the cooking by himself, gives Takako the brush-off. One day, however, Wang collapses due to overwork, and is left with partial paralysis. Hearing the rumor of the restaurant’s closure, Takako resigns from the department store and becomes an apprentice to Wang.
Sakai's Happiness is a humorous and bittersweet portrayal of an ordinary family dealing with the challenges of everyday life.
Masuyo
Na véspera da rendição japonesa, em 1945, Akagi, o médico local de uma povoação costeira de uma das ilhas japonesas, decide tomar uma posição firme para preservar a sua integridade profissional. Está preocupado com o crescente número de casos de hepatite e junta-se aos seus antigos companheiros, um monge dissoluto e um cirurgião niilista viciado em morfina, todos à margem da sociedade militar japonesa. Sonoko, uma rapariga selvagem, adere ao grupo como enfermeira. Tornou-se responsável pelos irmãos desde a morte dos pais e, por vezes, ganha dinheiro como prostituta. Mas ao trabalhar com Akagi o seu destino muda: apaixona-se pelo estranho médico e quer passar com ele o resto da sua vida.
Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.
Tatsu
Shigematsu Shizuma lives with his senile mother, his wife Shigeko, and his niece Yasuko in a village near Fukuyama. He, his wife, his niece and his close friends in the village were present at the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The Shizumas look for prospective husbands for Yasuko, but find that the families withdraw on finding out she was at Hiroshima.
In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.
