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In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

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 Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.

Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.

After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Futaba resolves to spend her remaining time reuniting her broken family, reopening the long-closed bathhouse, and helping her shy daughter Azumi learn to stand on her own.

เรื่องราวชีวิตของ “เรียวตะ” อดีตนักเขียนดาวรุ่งที่ใช้ชีวิตผิดทางจนต้องหย่าร้างกับ “ภรรยา” แม้พยายามจะเขียนหนังสือดีๆออกมาอีกครั้งแต่เขาก็ทำไม่สำเร็จและกลายเป็นนักสืบเอกชนในบริษัทเล็กๆแห่งหนึ่ง เขาพยายามหาเงินทุกวิถีทางเพื่อพิสูจน์ให้อดีตภรรยาเห็นว่าเขาสามารถจ่ายค่าเลี้ยงดู “ลูกชาย” ได้ท่ามกลางความล้มเหลวมีเพียง “แม่” ของเขาที่ยังรักเขาและคอยช่วยลูกชายสมานรอยร้าวในครอบครัว ในวันที่มีพายุสมาชิกครอบครัวทั้งหมดของเขาติดอยู่ในบ้านเล็กๆของแม่ และเปิดโอกาสให้เขาได้มองเห็นคำตอบของชีวิตท่ามกลางช่วงเวลาสั้นๆ ที่ครอบครัวของเขากลับมาพร้อมหน้าพร้อมตาอีกครั้งก่อนที่ต่างคนจะแยกย้ายกันไปหลังจากพายุผ่านพ้นไป

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a totally different person, and he is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, journalist Sakurai covers the story of a family that was brutally murdered, when an unexplained phenomenon takes place.

Hanako is looking for stability with her man. She gets dumped instead. She begins dating. Miki studied and worked hard to get to where she is and is holding down a job. They are introduced through an intermediary man.