Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island. Through his journey, Daisuke meets a number of interesting people, including friendly truck driver Sumire and a mysterious mountaineer girl.

At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to find a thief has stolen her secret money she kept hidden in the refrigerator.

Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin after carousing. Soon, a new disturbance arises for the Hirata family. Veteran director Yamada Yoji continues his comedy about the “perfect“ Japanese family turned upside down in chaos, laughters and understanding. This time, with an additional taste of death.

A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that she wants a divorce. The wife's divorce announcement sends the entire family into chaos.

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.

The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn wind.

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.

人力主管的工作让昭夫每日绷紧了神经，雪上加霜的是，他正处于与妻子离婚的边缘，与大学生女儿的关系也并非一帆风顺。有一天，他决定去东京的老城区看望他的母亲福江。然而，事情似乎有点不对劲。他的母亲过去总是穿着围裙工作，但现在她穿上了时髦的衣服，看起来比以往任何时候都活泼，甚至还坠入了爱河！昭夫十分困惑，在自己母亲的家里感到格格不入，但在遇到善良、热情、有些爱管闲事的邻居和他从未见过的母亲的另一面后，昭夫逐渐开始发现一些以往没注意过的东西。本片将是继《母亲》《如果与母亲一起生活》之后，山田洋次“母亲三部曲”最终章，也将是吉永小百合集大 成之作。