Yoriko Ikoma
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.
The story opens with Yukiko and her business partner in Moscow searching for Russian items for their store in Tokyo. There they meet a Russian translator, Nicholai, played by Sergei Nakariakov - a trumpeter from Russia. Some months later after they have returned, Nicholai and Yukiko meet again while he is auditioning for the Tokyo orchestra where seeds of romance begin. Yukiko's father, however, is diagnosed with a terminal case of cancer. Yukiko returns home to be with him in his final months as he decides not to go through therapy and let the disease run its course. Coming into contact with a childhood friend while at home Yukiko is left to choose between her old friend and Nicholai, all while having to face the emotional struggle of dealing with her father's impending death.
A young detective is assigned to stake out the apartment of an elderly woman. He sets up his video camera and monitor in an empty room opposite hers-and watches.
A difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be born as twins, but it was an operation to separate what had been taken into another body. The second in a series depicting the episode of the birth of Pinoko.
When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police baffled and the city terrified.
Sayuri
Maiko is a recently widowed young woman travelling to Bali to distract herself from the loss of her husband, Esau. At the airport she meets Kioko, who gives her a dagger and a photo of a woman. She tells Maiko she must find the woman, Shireni, in Bali and convince her to return to Japan, or she must use the dagger to kill her. Soon after her arrival in Bali she meets Shireni and is invited to stay with her. Quickly Maiko finds herself trapped on Shirini's island paradise, by her own confusion and her developing love for Shireni. She discovers Shireni to be immortal, a former spirit medium whose only goal is to find pleasure, body and soul.
Tsui Miura
В этот день 8 августа 1945 года у героев фильма, жителей Нагасаки, произошло много важных событий — какие-то были счастливыми, какие-то грустными, какие-то неожиданными. Но никто из них не предполагал, что это последний день их жизни.
Тора-сан вступает в спор со своим дядей и снова отправляется в путь. В Кюсю он встречает молодую женщину по имени Кэйко и застенчивого зоолога Сабуро и пытается играть в сватовство между ними, когда они все возвращаются в Токио.
Kozue
Former blues singer turned private eye, BJ becomes involved in a dangerous gang business.
Sonoko
Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel.
Tokiyo Oki
Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.
A rare film about the Zainichi and the relations between Japan and South Korea. It is the first feature film ever directed by a zainichi director to explore these issues.
Rie Munakata
Суд обвиняет Аяко в убийстве мужа, который якобы мешал ее отношениям с другим мужчиной — Осамой. Осама же понимает, что между ними ничего не было, поэтому он решает помочь Аяко.
After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashiro Egi, Shizu Kazemaki, Mitsue Nanbu, an intellectual who works in a university laboratory, and an old woman.
