Chi wa kawaiteru

A dying businessman intends to will two hundred million yen to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.

The story of a family in Tokyo who live under the same roof in a large house and include the widowed sixty-year-old mother, older son and his wife, the youngest daughter and the older daughter who, wh

A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

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.

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.

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.

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

The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.