Utae Shoji

This film is about a train departing Osaka Station at midnight to an unknown destination. The people on this train all have some difficulties in their lives, and they end up on this train. Hanoko is suicidal, Yuka has caught her boyfriend with another woman, Michiru is aimless, Mr. Wakabayashi has just been fired, and one other man just lost his wife. They take the train to Kazumachi, a small village. They decide to stay and enter a small world of discovery about themselves, courtesy of the inhabitants of the village, all of whom are engaging.

Sachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to live in an apartment building that also houses seven elderly women. The film examines the ladies' sexual desires as the man proceeds to woo each of them. Kazuko Yoshiyuki portrays one of the female residents. The film was adapted from a novel by Houko Momotani and was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival.

The follow up to the very popular first instalment.

Live action version of "Go!! Karate Club"

The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a hitman, she returns to thoughts of revenge.

A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man.

Однажды в квартиру Синсаку неизвестная женщина приводит маленького мальчика и говорит, что мальчик, возможно, его сын. По словам женщины, она соседка некой Акэми, которая, оставив ей ненадолго ребёнка, сбежала с любовником за границу, после чего прислала письмо, в котором сообщила, что отцом ребёнка может быть один из пяти перечисленных ею мужчин, среди которых Синсаку оказался единственным, кто жил в Токио. Синсаку вместе со своей девушкой отправляется в путешествие на поиски настоящего отца мальчика.

Затойчи приходится платить за все свои добрые дела. После того как он принял роды у умирающей в поле женщины, он выполнил ее последнюю волю: отнес ребенка в Сиобара. Но там не оказалось отца ребенка и он отдал его тетушке Ойа-э. Испытываю симпатию к Ойа-э, он решается помочь ей, когда постоялый двор, на котором она работала, начальник Тецугоро превращает в бордель.

Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-violent tale from the era of the Meiji Reconstruction. When a woman leaves her blind son at the Monastery, Ryotatsu is forced to teach the boy how to cope as a blind person in old Japan. When he takes the child with him on the road to find the boy's mother, they run afoul of not only yakuza gangsters, but some corrupt army officers have been trying to sway public opinion against the Satsuma rebels by posing as members of Saigo Takamori's group. It's a bloody mistake for them to underestimate the strength of the Blind Priest, and he'll make them pay with their lives!

A five year old boy leaves his mother and grandparents to see his father who has gone to work in Osaka.

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.