Older Brother, Younger Sister

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 bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

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

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.

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

Poor, pathetic mother Ose has four children, three daughters and a son, by four different men.

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

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted J

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 childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis.

Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow, does what she can to keep her daughter Utako and son Seiichi safe, fed, and sheltered. By 1953, it's clear that the chil

Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa's ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Each knows the other isn't happy, they themselves aren't happy, but they don't talk about their problems with each ot