Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.
千葉早智子
Kimiko Yamamoto
英百合子
Oyuki
伊藤智子
Etsuko Yamamoto
堀越節子
Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
丸山定夫
Shunsaku Yamamoto
ヘンリー大川
Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
伊東薫
Kenichi (Oyuki's son)
藤原釜足
Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)
細川ちか子
Shingo's wife
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru. Economic recession and failed development plans cause tragedy in the family.
A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. However, her younger sister opposes this, thinking that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them.
ทาคูมิ และลูกสาวของเขา อาศัยอยู่ในหมู่บ้านมิซูฮิกิ ใกล้กับเมืองโตเกียว จนวันหนึ่งชาวบ้านในหมู่บ้านเริ่มรู้ถึงแผนการที่จะสร้างสถานที่ตั้งแคมป์ใกล้กับบ้านของ ทาคูมิ เพื่อที่จะให้ชาวเมืองสามารถมาพักผ่อนหย่อนใจและหลบหนีความวุ่นวายมาสู่ธรรมชาติได้
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
นางไม้มหัศจรรย์จากกระบอกไม้ไผ่ได้เติบโตขึ้นเป็นหญิงสาวแสนงดงามอย่างรวดเร็วและมีหนุ่มๆ มาหมายปองมากมาย
Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again.
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.