A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.
Koichi Sato
Hiroshi Nirasaki
Yuki Saito
Mizuho
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Sasaichi
Shiho Fujimura
Mizuho's Mother
Sumiko Fuji
Kimiyi, Hiroshi's Mother
Tomokazu Miura
Hiroshi's Brother
Kimiko Yo
Wife of Hiroshi's Brother
Shinya Tsukamoto
Doctor
Tsurube Shofukutei
Shinto Priest
A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.
After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.