朽ちた手押し車

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.

In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the top of a nearby mountain to die in solitude. Orin, a vibrant 69-year-old grandmother, has accepted her fate — but struggles to prepare the rest of her family for the ritual.

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.

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.

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.

ณ หมู่บ้านที่เคยงดงามซึ่งกลายเป็นลานทิ้งขยะขนาดยักษ์ เด็กหนุ่มพยายามหาทางหลุดพ้นจากโชคชะตาอันโหดร้ายที่ผูกมัดเขาไว้ทั้งชีวิต

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

เรื่องราวของชายหญิงชราคู่หนึ่งที่อาศัยอยู่ในชนบท ตัดสินใจเดินทางเข้าสู่โตเกียวเพื่อเยี่ยมลูกเเละหลาน แต่ต้องพบกับความผิดหวังเมื่อลูกๆ ต่างต้องทำงานจนไม่มีเวลาให้กับพ่อเเม่ของตน ยิ่งไปกว่านั้นคนที่มาคอยดูแลกลับกลายเป็นลูกสะใภ้ซึ่งสูญเสียสามีไปในสงคราม

Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in life as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with his dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann.

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.