
Tokyo Story
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...
Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...
The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.
Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.
Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of holding the weather trackers as hostages and...
Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there...
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an...