Hiroyuki Yasukouchi

Drama depicting two men and a woman, each with their own issues, who head for Fukui, and their maturity and rejuvenation through travel. Recently retired Nishina Kosuke goes to meet his first love, who he got to know as a pen pal 42 years ago. For Kagawa Yuika, raised by a single mother, Fukui is a place seeped with memories of her father. And, violinist Kuga Hikari is trying to break through a slump.

Shohei works as a doctor in a seaside hospital. One day, a new patient is admitted to the hospital with ovarian cancer. Shohei is surprised to recognize Michiko, his first love from high school. Shohei has been leading a dissolute bachelor life, paying for the company of high school girls and dating an older woman who works in a local bar, but in reality, for the last twenty years, he has not forgotten Michiko. Unfortunately though, Michiko doesn't remember him at all. Shohei becomes more and more persistent in his attempts to get her to recall their past. At first she is annoyed by his overtures, but gradually warms to the doctor. Under Shohei's kind and patient care, Michiko's condition improves and her cancer becomes operable. The operation is a success, but now Shohei himself learns that he has terminal cancer.

Hiromi works in a posh French restaurant. One day, he meets an ordinary-looking old man who has a discerning palate. He is no ordinary cook, and can pinpoint the exact problems with Hiromi's dishes. His name is Tatematsu Ippei, a legendary chef renowned for his work in France once upon a time. After a food poisoning mishap, his fiance Sophie had left him and he cut himself off from the culinary world. Hiromi is engrossed with Ippei's cuisine and asks for lessons. Meanwhile, Sophie, now the wife of the director of a top tableware manufacturer, comes to Japan. Ippei cooks a banquet for her using Hiromi's restaurant as a front. Sophie notices that the food is made by Ippei, her former lover. The two meet and enjoy a short-lived reunion, but go on to live their own separate lives.

Семья Сасаки на грани катастрофы. Муж, Сётаро, работает дома и влюблен в свою работу немного сильнее, чем следует, а его красавица-жена Минако влюблена в своего сослуживца тоже немного сильнее, чем следует. Все злятся друг на друга по поводу и без. У сослуживца жены, однако, есть и другая любовница. Та отслеживает их адюльтер, заявляется к Сётаро и вываливает на стол перед ним пачку компрометирующих фотографий… И вот уже детям, Тору и Мари, приходится осознать дикий факт: мама хочет уйти из дома. Однако в доме Сасаки целых три пианино, и уже совсем скоро выступление на конкурсе, где мать и дочь должны сыграть в четыре руки. Чем ближе выступление, тем больше музыка влияет на происходящее. И постепенно Брамс объясняет, кому что делать…

Альтернативная история. В Японии идет долгая и кровопролитная война. Никто не помнит, кто ее начал, и никому не известно, когда она кончится. Страна в руинах. Молодой помощник режиссера работает на телестудии посреди разбомбленного города. И мечтает снять фильм о правде жизни, и людях, как они есть.

Mayo, the Black Angel, is ordered to assassinate a powerful syndicate leader. The hit goes awry, however, as the crime boss' bodyguard steps in the way. It's none other than Yamambe, who once rescued Mayo from a rape and has lived in her heart since then.

Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small remote island to seal a business deal. His predecessor almost managed to convince the island's 17 inhabitants to sell their stake and make way for a resort hotel -- that is, before he died under dubious circumstances. Takamine finds the islanders polite and kind but unwilling to discuss business; instead, they tell him to become an islander. So the city-slicker stuffed shirt loses his tie and starts to help the women plant and the men fish. He soon makes his acquaintance with Takako (Mitsuko Baisho), the widowed daughter of the island's chief. She lives alone with her crazed son who is kept Jane Eyre-style chained to a stake. One moon-lit night, their mutual attraction boils over, resulting in a naked, passionate roll on the beach.

Kishi is a 37-year-old personnel officer and fairly happy with work, wife and child. But he turns out to be susceptible to a more exciting life. Through his old schoolfriend Daimon he meets the attractive Yoshie and spends a sensational night of love with her. Kishi doesn't want to leave it at one night. On their second meeting, Daimon is also present and this night turns into a sado-masochistic ritual. A suppressed memory emerges in Kishi: once he raped an elderly woman with Daimon. Kishi again crossed a frontier this night and the relationship with his colleague Yuko also breaks boundaries. He slowly realises that his emotional life is taking a direction that he had never dreamed possible; Kishi moves into a new and dark world.

After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father

Summer Vacation tells the story of four teenage students who spend their summer vacation at school – unsupervised and untouched by the outside world.

Ichijoji is a street punk who stumbles across Mari and her cat. Mari and Ichijoji immediately fall in love but are chased by both yakuza and corrupt cops.

Действие фильма происходит в небольшой рыбацкой деревушке. Жизнь в деревне неспешно идёт своим чередом — мужчины на своих катерах выходят в море и ловят рыбу, женщины её солят и сушат. Среди мужчин особенно выделяется рыбак Сюдзи, по характеру он настоящий лидер, и все жители деревни идут к нему со своими проблемами, Сюдзи не кому не отказывает в помощи. Но у него есть своя тайна — он постоянно ходит в застёгнутой на все пуговицы одежде и никогда не снимает рубашку. Дело в том, что в прошлом Сюдзи был известным на всю Осаку якудза, а его спину украшает татуировка, на которой изображён демон Яша. Никто в деревне даже не догадывается о прошлом Сюдзи. Но впереди главных героев ждут не лёгкие перемены, в деревню приезжает молодая женщина по имени Кэйко и открывает пивную, которая тут же становится любимым местом времяпровождения для местных рыбаков, к всеобщему недовольству их жён. А следом за Кэйко из Осаки приезжает её бой-френд, якудза-наркоман Ядзима.

Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend. Then his mother, unable to fight her forbidden desires, shows up.

"Won't you be my lover? Unless there are some rules..."