Shinya is in debt as a result of his gambling habit. He attempts to defraud an old woman with a bank transfer scam, but the woman reminds him of his late mother and they start to relate to each other. Meanwhile, Shinya meets a girl called Hisako in town, and ends up helping her to find out the whereabouts of an unsuccessful comedian, Raita, whom her mother was in love with in her youth. Shinya's father, Ryutaro, is disowned by his son after his wife's death. When Ryutaro meets a homeless man called Moses, he starts living on the street as well. One day when the old woman dies, Moses comes to the deceased and confesses his past. Subsequently Shinya resumes communicating with his father Ryutaro.

日本2002年根据吉田秋生的漫画改编的电影，是新一代玉女偶像平山绫（《五个扑水的少年》）的第一部担正电影。 理伽子和藤井朋章同在镰仓的一所学校上学，一次偶然相遇而陷入爱河，面对他们有单相思和同性恋的倾向的男女们，开始注意他们的行踪和感情的发展，很快，一对恋人和四对单相思的男女开始编织错综复杂的爱情关系……

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.

A chronicle of the life of Yasui Santetsu, a 17th century master of go who turned his attention to astronomy and created a new calendar for Japan. Based on the life of Santetsu Yasui (December 27, 1639-November 1, 1715), appointed as the first official astronomer in the Edo Period and would go on to create the Jokyo calendar at the imperial request.

Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Kobayashi Makoto, who has just committed suicide. Watched over by a neutral spirit named Purapura, the soul must figure out what his greatest sin and mistake in his former life was, before his time limit in Makoto's body runs out. He also has a number of other lesser duties he must complete, such as understanding what led Makoto to commit suicide in the first place and learning how to enjoy his second chance at life.

2005 Japanese drama film directed by Kentarō Ōtani

2013 film by Yuya Ishii

A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.

After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.

Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika Hokusai and his second wife Koto. Although Oei became the wife of a town painter for a time, her love of the paintbrush more than her husband spelt disaster and she comes back home to Hokusai from the family she had married into. This is how Oei starts to help her father out in his painting of the “insurmountable high wall”. Meanwhile, Oei can only talk to the painter Ikeda Zenjiro, who is her father’s student, about her pain and worries. Zenjiro has taken Edo by storm as Keisai Eisen, the master of ukiyo-e portraying beautiful women. He visits regularly because he admires Hokusai and secretly likes Oei although their relationship is like childhood friends. Oei respects her father whose paintings fascinated her and continues to work as a painter who supports him behind the scenes. When Hokusai’s masterpiece Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji was completed, she was also by his side.

小野寺理纱（宫崎葵饰）四年前在婚礼上遭遇新郎逃婚，现如今心情已经平复，一直跟父母生活在一起。其父亲俊作（松重丰饰）曾经是糕点生产公司的营业部部长，现因人事变动被调到了其他的部门，而该部门新上任的部长就是俊作曾经的下属兵头幸太郎（永山瑛太饰）。其母真知子（松坂庆子饰）是一个性格开朗的家庭主妇，经常去仓桥响子（一路真辉饰）开的插花班上课。仓桥响子的前夫村上洋一（六平直政饰）是俊作的发小兼前辈，他经营了一家小酒馆，俊作是他家的常客。 四年前父亲俊作为了想和女儿女婿住在一起建了一栋双户型的别墅，然而因为理纱被逃婚，现在就理纱、俊作以及真知子，这一家三口住在别墅里。某天理纱说自己被求婚了，要带个对象回来给俊作和真知子看看，谁知带回来的人竟然是兵头幸太郎。之前的下属，现如今成了自己的上司兼准女婿…… 理纱和幸太郎的感情究竟会如何发展？理纱、幸太郎会和俊作及真知子同住在一个屋檐下吗？

2000 film directed by Shinji Aoyama

Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.

13-year-old Sachiko is about to encounter the most difficult moments in her young life. Her father abandons her and her mother attempts to commit suicide by slashing her wrist. Her teacher, whom she relies on heavily, leaves for northern Japan to take another job. Other students start to gossip about Sachiko and her former teacher. Sachiko then drops out of school and attempts to find herself.

Mikio is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio is diagnosed with depression. Mikio's wife is Haruko. They have been married for 5 years. Haruko draws comics for work, but they do not sell well. She mainly relied on Mikio for support. Meanwhile, Haruko did not notice any changes in her husband. She begins to blame herself for not noticing any signs. Mikio's depression derived from his work. His company has been pressing him to quit the company. After Mikio quits his job his condition improves, but the dynamics of their relationship changes.

2007 film by Joji Matsuoka