Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

Foreign terrorists threaten Japan with a nuclear attack.

An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle them all to save his planet.

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.

秘密国家将山中博士（林寛 饰）洗脑，并借他的手向地球发射原子弹。钢铁巨人（宇津井健 饰）奋起阻拦，巨大的爆炸过后令所有人以为他随原子弹同归于尽。秘密国家喜出望外，其元首更发出了轰炸喜马拉雅山的指令。但是他的恐怖袭击并未使其他国家屈服，于是再次对纽约的摩天大楼、英国的伦敦塔和日本的议会厅进行轰炸。 另一方面，虽然薰（三ツ矢歌子 饰）、良一（池田輝久 饰）以及山中博士的助手浅见（浅见比吕志 饰）也被洗脑，但他们仍然保有自己的意志。经过一番商量，他们决定从内部粉碎秘密国家的阴谋。正邪双方终于到了决一死战的时刻……

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.