Floating Weeds

A kabuki actor's mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover's son.

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.

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 mistress of a drug dealer in post-war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister.

A quasi-docu-drama pertaining to the monumental process to bring a performance troupe to a small Japanese village to perform for one night.

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.

An aging Japanese industrialist becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

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.

The tear-inducing trials and tribulations of farm folk; specifically, hand-cart workers, in Japan at the turn of the century to the 1940s, as experienced by Seki-san and her husband, Moichi-san. Their

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

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