Japanese

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

A triptych examines the nature of one unforgettable city as it's shaped by the disparate people who live, work (and even run amok) inside one enormous, constantly evolving, densely populated megalopolis, the ravishing and inimitable Tokyo.

A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.

In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.

A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.

A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.

A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.

A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis.

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada to take her home, while he sleeps at Okada's. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home, and also of her husband when she discovers that he did not go golfing.

The story about the businessmen who are competing for international building contracts.

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.

Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.