Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr. Mazaki, the new mathematics teacher.

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's father dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a kind Korean and a Harley-riding yakuza.

Nobuko works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of her again. Since that time, Koji appears in front of her and they reminiscence about pleasant times. These happy, but bizarre moments seem eternal.

Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer, the real-life poet Akiko Yosano, and her experiences among the literati of early 20th century Japan. Because of her independent, anti-war and often erotic poetry, she was a lightning rod for revolutionaries and other extremists, many of whom were destined to glamorous, yet ultimately pointless, deaths. The closest parallels might be the Byron/Shelley group or the people drawn to the Beat Generation.

Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from their career and love life. Soon, their room share takes a turn, when ideals begin to clash with reality.

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.

One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the armored payroll car headed for the dam construction site, takes the wounded man to the police and claims the reward offered. He is told to wait until the driver of the armored car returns to identify the bandit and goes over to the Blue Star where he is introduced to Mishima, the owner of the cabaret, who is highly respected in the town. Joe then meets Saburo, while fishing, and his lovely sister, who seem to sense the real man beneath the rough appearance and take him into their home. Word reaches Joe that the bandit he'd captured had been shot and he hurries over to the hospital.

Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a young boy who has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.

Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, one with her business man lover and one with the girl in love with him.

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

From a true incident that happened in 1960s Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it focuses on a tangled web of murder and deceit encountered by a beautiful woman, Kayo (Sayuri Yoshinaga) after her abusive husband is murdered.

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will become his wife...

故事发生在千年之前的越前国，紫氏部（吉永小百合 饰）嫁给比自己大很多的丈夫，生下女儿贤子。丈夫婚后不久就去世，紫氏一直过着孀居的生活并开始创作小说《源氏物语》。不久，藤原道长唤她来京都担任女儿彰子的老师，希望把彰子调教成皇后最合适的人选。
紫氏入宫，一边继续创作《源氏物语》，一边给彰子讲其中的故事……这是关于光源氏一生的爱情故事。源氏（天海佑希 饰）俊美无比，从小失去母亲。他岁与左大臣的女儿葵上成婚，但并不爱她。源氏从小对父亲的宠妃藤壶心生爱慕，并发生了乱伦关系。藤壶怀孕生子，使两人都充满负罪感。源氏意外发现一个叫紫上（常盘贵子 饰）的女孩，长得很像藤壶。便把她养在家里，并娶为正式。源氏又相继与明石姬、栊月夜、六条等十数位贵族女性发生了暧昧关系。贵族的糜烂生活，人世的宿命，女人的悲剧，一并听紫氏娓娓道来。

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.

Sachie Kitahara is a housewife and she has devoted her life to her family. Mako Goda is a wealthy woman who runs a business. They are both diagnosed with terminal illnesses and are told they only have a short time left to live. These two women from completely different walks of life meet at the hospital. They both feel emptiness in their lives. They happen to get a 12-year-old's written bucket list. Sachie Kitahara and Mako Goda decide to carry out the girl's wish list and they begin to feel happiness entering their lives.

东京一隅，温柔善良的高野吟子（吉永小百合 饰）独自打理着去世丈夫留下来的药店。过去的20年里，她和婆婆、女儿小春（蒼井優 饰）住在一起，虽颇多艰辛，但日子平淡幸福。如今，女儿将要嫁作人妻，吟子喜悦之余仍不免有所忧虑。原来在丈夫13周年忌辰上，她的弟弟铁郎（笑福亭鹤瓶 饰）醉酒胡闹，惹得亲朋不快。吟子和哥哥庄平（小林稔侍 饰）有意瞒着弟弟，然而得到消息的铁郎依旧欢喜前来，而且照例醉酒闹事。铁郎的举动不仅让家人颜面尽失，也影响了小春的婚姻。此后的日子里，这个年过半百却总也长不大的弟弟成为了姐姐久久无法割舍的牵绊……
本片为日本国宝级导演山田洋次向市川昆致敬之作，受邀参加第60届柏林影展，并荣获电影节特别奖。

年轻学生（浜田光夫 饰）利用假期外出旅行，在行至伊豆汤岛时，他邂逅了几位巡回表演的歌舞伎艺人，其中一名梳着旧时发髻、伶俐清秀的年轻舞女（吉永小百合 饰）引起了学生的注意。
他有意识地赶上这群来自波浮港的艺人，和他们结伴前往下田。一路上有说有笑，欢声不断，学生和艺人们渐渐熟捻，更迷上了那位尚未成年的舞女阿薰。在温暖潮湿的南国，学生陷入纯洁的爱恋之中，同时亦为现实的无奈所困扰……
根据川端康成早期中篇同名小说改编，该版本系本小说第四次搬上银幕。

孝之助（渡哲也 饰）在学生时代就开始爱慕着名为多江（吉永小百合 饰）的女子，一晃眼二十年过去，多江的一颦一笑依然深深的留存在孝之助的脑海之中。一场聚会中，孝之助意外的和多江重逢了，此时的多江经营着自己的花艺工作室，她的丈夫在早年间去世了。孝之助和多江的来往渐渐密切了起来，两人屡屡出游，倾诉他们深藏在心底的梦想。
孝之助因为突发心脏病而住进了医院，前去探望的多江在医院捡到了孝之助的妻子佳子。这场会面让多江意识到自己正在做一件不可挽回的事情，于是决定离开孝之助，和自己的插花老师去京都学习。孝之助最终和佳子离了婚。

A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.