The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

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...

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor...

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

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...