A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

After being mistaken for counterfeiters by the police, an inventor and reporter try to track down the real counterfeiters.

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going to hold a memorial service for her father. Of course, the detective falls in love with his prey.

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.