秋子自小因病失聪，对生命感到无奈。战祸发生后，与家人避至新泻县居住。秋子的丈夫在战乱中死去，被丈夫的家人迫回娘家。一次旧校生聚会中，认识了片山道夫，两人互相倾慕相恋，后来结了婚。纵使生活艰苦，两人互相持，齐心面对，但不幸的事却不断发生。

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he barely communicates with anyone except Genzo, a young neighbour. Upstream, a large bridge is being constructed. Everyone is excited, but Toichi has mixed feelings about it. One day, Toichi meets a mysterious girl. Having no family and no place to go, Toichi lets her stay with him, but this encounter starts to bring about changes to Toichi's life.

90岁的直木奖获奖作家佐藤爱子现已封笔，她和女儿、外孙女一起过着慵懒的生活。一天，一位中年编辑邀请她撰写一篇随笔。爱子起初拒绝了他的提议，可对方每天都带着礼物上门拜访，她最终还是被他的热情打动。编辑重燃工作激情，却因此疏于照顾家人，导致妻子向他提出了离婚。爱子的随笔集一路畅销，受到很多人的喜爱。她和编辑成为了默契的工作搭档，但他们将如何应对自己的生活呢？

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.

Sawa, a home helper for a middle class family with an elderly infirm grandfather, is forced to stretch her morals to keep her job. As a result, she finds herself broke and out on the street. She survives her first night by striking up an ambiguous friendship with a kindly old man, gaining access to a portion of the immense wealth held by Japan's aging population. She continues with similar encounters, and while these begin as scams or revenge on rampant sexism, they ultimately become vulnerable intergenerational exchanges.

Azusa and Kanami have been best friends since high school. After Kanami dies in an unexpected accident, Azusa despairs yet finds comfort in sending text messages to Kanami’s cellphone. Kanami’s parents wonder about Azusa’s identity, and upon visiting the orphanage that their dead daughter cared about, are moved by her good deeds.

犬神制药创始人犬神佐兵卫（三国连太郎 饰）一生不曾娶妻，却有三个女儿松子（高峰三枝子 饰）、竹子（三条美纪 饰）、梅子（草笛光子 饰），另收养恩人野野宫大式孙女珠世（岛田阳子 饰）为义女。犬神生前留有遗书，规定三女只能继承遗产极少部分，多数遗产由珠世获得，然珠世需同犬神三 个孙子中的一个婚配方可继承。犬神家顾问律师嗅到遗产之争背后的血腥气息，从东京请来名侦探金田一耕助（石坂浩二）协助调查。
佐兵卫亲眷集结一起，等待遗嘱宣读。长孙佐清（あおい輝彦 饰）亦从前线战场退役归来，然其面目被毁，终日头戴面具，引起除其母松子之外其他亲人怀疑。佐武（地井武男 饰）与佐智（川口恒 饰）一面调查佐清真实身份，一面向珠世展开情感攻势，但最后皆离奇死亡。
随着死亡增加和调查深入，金田一逐渐发现犬神家辉煌背后诸多不为人知的秘密，真相渐渐浮出水面……

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.

昭和6年，日本冈山县鬼首村，一名自称恩田几三的男子来到村中，推销他的圣诞树加工机器。时村中有仁礼和由良两大世家，仁礼家在战后专营葡萄酒业，风头正劲，而由良家则走向没落。为对抗仁礼一族，由良家接受恩田的推荐，进军圣诞树加工业，结果却被骗得血本无归。
自幼移居神户的青池源治郎回到村中，揭穿恩田的骗局，随后源志郎被杀。当年侦办此案的矶川警官（若山富三郎 饰）始终认为此案存有疑点，昭和27年，他从东京请来名侦探金田一耕助（石坂浩二 饰）调查。此时距惨案已有20年，各家的孩子均已长大成人。由良家的泰子（高橋洋子 饰）和仁礼家的文子（永野裕紀子 饰）同时爱上了源志郎的儿子歌名雄（北公次 饰）。但在某个夜晚，泰子被残忍杀害。这起凶案与20年前的悬案有着千丝万缕的关系，其背后隐藏着的感情纠葛也随着牺牲者的增加而渐渐浮出水面……

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.

An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the throne and marrying the king's beautiful daughter. Along the way, with the help of some courageous rebels and a lustful wizard, he must overcome the powers of a bewitching witch, a band of ruthless pirates, and the castle's Imperial guards. He must also free those kidnapped into slavery and restore the king's reputation.

This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion and doubt clouds Kousuke's mind.

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'.

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and elderly advisor Sumuke, hire Yumihiko of Matsuro to hunt the phoenix so that Queen Himiko, sister of Susano-O can have eteranal life.