正司照枝

Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes true. When she learns of the trouble Yukichi's business is facing, she stands ready to come to his aid, and thus repay a debt that's long overdue.

Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company "Theatrical Company Hono" in Fujieda City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where the presiding officers and performers are composed of elderly women. They have been performing stage plays about issues related to the elderly for a long time.

A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.

Leo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with Maray, an older Japanese-Caucasion woman.

The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is pregnant and he has built a second level on his shop to provide his adopted son Junnosuke with a private space to study for entrance to Tokyo University to set up a career with a major company. He dreams of sparing Junnosuke the struggles that he has faced as a writer. The family continues to rely upon Hiromi's income from her bar. Meanwhile a rival story, The Virus, by a new writer has appeared in the periodical that has been publishing his stories "Boy's Adventure Book" and he fears the new competition. Norifumi Suzuki also receives a new TV, but more of a deluxe model. Mutsuko Hoshino (Roku) is still the principal mechanic in the Suzuki family's auto repair shop, but she dresses up some mornings to go to a nearby street with the hope of a "chance" meeting with Dr...

A story of rivalry between two gambling clans.

Sur une petite île de la mer intérieure de Seto, Tora rencontre la belle Fumi Hamada (Keiko Matsuzaka) qui se recueille sur la tombe de sa grand-mère. Quelque temps plus tard, Fumi, qui est geisha à Osaka, croise à nouveau par hasard Tora au sanctuaire Ishikiri. Ils se retrouvent pour un rendez-vous galant au temple Hôzan sur le mont Ikoma. Elle lui révèle avoir un petit frère dont elle a été séparée dans la plus tendre enfance. Tora propose qu’ils aillent ensemble à sa recherche, mais ils découvrent alors que celui-ci est mort de maladie. La jeune femme a le cœur brisé et Tora se montre très attentionné envers elle, mais ne parvenant pas à répondre aux sentiments de la jeune femme, il finit par retourner à Shibamata...

A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.

Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago.The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.

Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of the goddess Banten, the woman who heads the Banten Yakuza family. She comes into confrontation with a powerful of Yakuza group Mutsumi-kai, seeking to capture all power in their hands.

The year is 1947, August. Ono Junko's family is being evacuated to Wakayama and the father is going to war. A few years later, the father has returned from Manchuria but he also brought a boy that had been abandoned by his mother. The boy is Yuta and the family will adopt him.