这是一部感人至深的制作，在日本很受欢迎，制作者每年推出一集，连续上演多年，而参加演出的演员阵容却没有变化，从而在艺术上实现了真实。在剧中扮演父亲的是日本著名的老演员田中邦 卫，曾经因为在《背叛》、《非凡的勇气》、《八墓村》等影视剧中的演出赢得了很好的声誉，而中国观众记忆最深的则是他在《追捕》中塑造的反派角色横路进二。在《北国之恋》中，他扮演的父亲朴实、勤劳、忠厚，为了一对儿女付出了一生的精力。在《北国之恋》中扮演兄妹的吉冈秀隆、中岛朋子都是从十岁起就开始参加该部电视剧的拍摄，可以说他们是随着这部电视剧长大的，当《北国之恋》最终封镜时，这对当年的童星也成了日本演艺界的名人。此外，在本剧中客串出演的有竹下景子、宫泽理惠等著名演员。

1980 film directed by Akira Kurosawa

The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter for him at the post office before she died.

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.

A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming city.

昭和39年，民政党现任总裁寺田政臣（久米明 饰）战胜最大对手酒井和明（神田隆 饰），获得连任，双方为此投入总计近40亿日元的选举金。选举后数日，隶属寺田派的星野官房长官的秘书西尾拜见有金融王之称的商人石原参吉（宇野重吉 饰），明确表示希望石原帮寺田派弥补竞选后留下的两亿日元欠款。石原断然拒绝后，请日本政治新闻社社长古垣（高桥悦史 饰）调查幕后之事。 调查得知，九州福流川水库正在招标，星野康雄（仲代达矢 饰）意欲让曾为民政党贡献大笔政治献金的竹田建设中标，而负责招标的电力建设公司亦另有打算。石原的介入揭开了虚伪政治背后的丑恶一面……

1982 film by Kinji Fukasaku

When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.

Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people have become prey to new diseases. Professor Azuma's "neo-cell" project, which is supposed to be the answer to mankind's hardships, becomes a nightmare come true when mutants spawned from the experiment escape and declare war on the human race. Azuma's son Tetsuya, who was killed during the previous war, is reborn into the cyborg Casshern as mankind's last hope against the new mutant threat. This live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name.

1989 film by Shōhei Imamura

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.

An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.

The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. As well as showing her relationships with the man she loves and the men who employ her, it satirizes corruption and the influence of money in Japanese politics.

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.