史无前例的东日本大地震，让许多人的命运由此发生巨大转变。生活在国际大都会东京的中年人远间宪太郎（佐藤浩市 饰），是一家照相机制造商的员工，自离异后独自抚养年幼的女儿，过着与世无争的平凡生活。某公司社长富樫重藏（西村雅彦 饰）既是宪太郎的客户，也是能够与之吐露心声的好友。世态炎凉的当下，两个男人分享着难得而珍贵的友情。随后的日子里，宪太郎又先后遇见美丽的筱原贵志子（吉濑美智子 饰）和身心背负创伤4岁男孩喜多川圭辅（贞多奏风 饰）。某天，他们看到一张草原上摆放着椅子的照片，于是这四个人决定携手远行，前往那个被称为最后的世外桃源的梦幻所在，寻找彼此失落的感动与灵魂……
本片根据宫本辉的同名原作改编。

A first film as producer/director for the celebrated actress Sachiko Hidari, who plays a leading role herself and can also be seen in Double Suicide at Sonezaki in this year's Festival. Ms. Hidari was born in 1930, and worked as a teacher of music and gymnastics before signing with the independent Sogo Geijutsu company as an actress in 1952. Her first significant appearances were in two of Heinosuke Gosho's 1954 films. An Inn at Osaka and the The Cock Crows Again, and she has subsequently played the female lead in such films as Tomotaka Tosaka's The Maid's Kid, Sosumu Hani's She and He and Imamura's The Insect Woman. She founded her own production company to co-produce The Far Road with the Japanese National Railway Workers' Union with whom she shared a wish to bring to the screen for the first time something of the lives and problems of blue-collar workers in the Japanese Railways. The resulting film is large in ambition and scale; it was two years in production, and finally cost some 120 million yen.
The film begins on Railroad Day (14 October) 1975, with railway employee Ichizo Takinoue travelling to Sapporo with his wife Satoko to receive to Sapporo with his wife Satoko to receive his award for 30 years' service - a wristwatch. That evening, Ichizo's suppressed tensions and resentments come to the surface when for no rational reason he violently opposes his daughter Yuki's proposed marriage. Satoko (played by Ms.Hidari) thinks ruefully back to the day she married Ichizo and reflects on the changes that both they and the Japan National Railway have been through.
Through a series of flashbacks, the film identifes the crucial year of transition. In the early 60's, when the family had two young children and Satoko went out to work as well as Ichizo, the first wave of modernisation hit the railways: job security was threatened and Ichizo twice failed his promotion exams. By 1966, the introduction of new technology was resulting in lay-offs: Satoko, feeling that she should not have to work simply to earn enough for the family to live on, urged Ichizo to join the Union and support its fight or job security and better wages. In 1970, the Marusei (production improvement movement) took off, and a second Railway Workers' UNion was founded, this one secretly guided by the JNR management. Factionalism set in, and old friends found themselves divided.....Back in the present, Ichizo takes stock of his situation and realises that he has been taking out his feelings of uncertainty and impotence on his family. He gives his blessing to his daughter's marriage, and he and Satoko travel with their daughter and son-in-law to Nagasaki. The young couple inspire the old couple to reassess the 'far road' ahead of them.
(Tony Rayns 3rdHKIFF)

石油会社の技師坂本は2年間の中東の砂漠生活を終えて帰国の途中、学生時代の友人・香取の棲む香港を訪ねた。だが、空港で再会した香取は突然姿を消した。香取の行方を捜す坂本の前に、香取の知人・梨花、地元警察の魯奇刑事、日本の新聞社特派員森垣らが現れ、早く帰国するよう忠告する。そんな中、坂本を尾行してきた男が何者かに殺され「ゴメスの名は…」と謎の言葉を残す。

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.

若き弁護士・浜野は、恩師・宗方弁護士の年若い妻・靖江と不倫関係にあったが、ある事情から靖江を絞殺する。ところが宗方邸の近くをうろついていた前科4犯の男・脇田が宗方邸から盗んだ宝石を所持していたことから、靖江殺しの容疑者として緊急逮捕される。
脇田は、盗みは認めたものの殺人については否認したため検察の尋問は数日に渡る。しかし、担当検事・落合のしぶとい追及に脇田は殺害を自供し、事件は決着を見る。
一方、妻を殺された宗方弁護士は死刑廃止論者としての信念から敢えて脇田の弁護を担当する。そして、その助手を務めることになった浜野は良心の呵責から必要以上に脇田の無罪を主張する。その浜野の言動に不審を抱いた落合は、秘密裏に補充捜査を開始する。

An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up, and the girl is able to piece together her aunt's tragic story.

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is abroad in Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to imagine her as the personification of his impending fate. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he meets the living woman, the template for his fantasy, and together, they tour rural churches. Gradually, he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges that profoundly test the lessons he has learned.

明治21年、当時伊勢参宮でにぎわう街道では、お杉、お玉という女二人組の旅芸人が少なくとも五組はいて人気があった。五年前、河内の家にやってきた門付芸人お満によって、お杉、お玉、お文の幼い三姉妹は三味線の芸を仕込まれるが、その間に義父の源と娘たちを奪われた母ます江は姿を消してしまう。ある日、お文は突然やって来た源にお玉の代役として伊勢に連れて行かれる。お玉が男と逃げたのだった。そして初めてお杉、お玉として三味線を弾いたお文は、曲の半ばでお杉が白目をむき、身体をのけぞらしてひざを開くのに驚く。これもお杉の芸だったのだ。春が巡り、再び旅路についたその途中で源は芸を磨くため女になれとお杉を抱く。ところがそれを知ったお満は逆上し、源に殴りかかるが、反対にたたきのめされ、翌朝、源は意識のないお満を見捨て、二人を追い立てるように旅立つ。明治25年、二人の芸もいよいよ色めき、評判も高まって来たころ、本家間ノ山のお杉、お玉がその権利を売るといううわさがたった。同じころ、芝居小屋に出ていた鏡味仙太郎の三味線を聞いて心を奪われたお文は、彼に三味線の指導をしてもらう。明治27年、源はついに本家間ノ山の権利を買い取るが、突然警察の取締が厳しくなり、伊勢での大道芸が禁止される。数日後、お文は源とお杉を残して門付の旅に出た。自らの音にこだわり、旅を続けるお文は、川で死んでいたお満の姿を見る。そしてその手には三味線が固く握られていたのだった。

This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and, being that they are farmers and always busy and not rich, question the wisdom and feasibility of such an idea. A spokesperson for the acting troupe Ms. Kono lays out the whole thing and they must decide. You get little slices of rural life in Japan far, at least in sentiment, from Tokyo. The best thing about this film is that it has heart. The acting is good, but it is really about the simple storyline of outing on a show. Films rarely get made with such simplistic plots these days. Enjoy this little slice of what city people call “the simple life”.

Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria. He is offered a position in the expansive Kinki Corporation, but rival corporations are competing for a government contract to produce fighter planes.

Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.

山下舞永（常盘贵子 饰）是一位个性十分开朗的女性，一次偶然中，她遇见了名为富坚直树（织田裕二 饰）的男子。性格阴郁的直树受到了舞永的感化，逐渐变得乐观起来，随着时间的推移，一份真挚而又纯洁的感情在他和舞永之间展开了。
不幸的事情发生了，一次约会中，由于直树的迟到，导致舞永被歹徒玷污，心灵和身体上都受到了巨大创伤的舞永陷入了悲伤和痛苦中无法自拔，当时的画面不断的在脑海中重复上演，舞永的精神濒临了崩溃的边缘。尽管为了开导舞永，直树做出了种种努力，但都收效甚微，眼看着心爱的舞永离自己越来越远，直树感到了深深的无力。

明治37年，日俄处于战争时期。灵山早池峰下的寺庙里正在庆祝蚕神节，一个琵琶法师在佐佐木家弹唱《清悦物语》。武夫在佐佐木家打短工，刚服兵役归来。虽然武夫与佐佐木17岁的女儿小夜自小就已定亲，但由于武夫家早已衰落，他也开始回避小夜。八幡神社欢庆蚕神节这一天，一旦武夫拉紧缰绳，佐佐木家的白马就变得像神马一般威风。今天以后，小夜大胆地拉住武夫要他吐露真情。当天晚上，武夫第一次与小夜拥抱在一起。不久以后武夫再度应征入伍，小夜拒绝了别人的提亲，光着双脚在神社里徘徊。在一个风雪交加的夜晚，佐佐木家的白马冲断栏杆奔向远方，小夜也像着魔一样跑向原野。家里人发现小夜失踪，乱成了一团。而一匹白马载着武夫和小夜，跑过早池峰，又奔向天空。

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.

1995 film by Kei Kumai

清纯女孩大内美穗（松冈茉优 饰）出生在关东地区位于大山深处的一个名为止村的所在，自从政府推行市町村合并以来，这里的人口不断流失，各种配套设施老化落后。随着老龄化程度加深，而今止村只是一个人口约五十人且行将消失的暮年村落。美穗的母亲早年去世，父亲正登（反町隆史 饰）当年因债务纠纷离开家乡当了出租车司机。爷爷一男不畏艰辛和贫苦，坚持贯彻中止有机蔬菜的理念。在毫无征兆的一天，看起来硬硬朗朗的爷爷突然病故，而借着葬礼的机会美穗终于见到了13年未曾谋面的父亲。
一男的去世让止村的有机蔬菜事业也陷入困局。求职过程中不断碰壁的美穗下定决心继承爷爷的事业，而发誓不在回归故土的正登似乎也暗下了决定……

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.

杀妻警官在接受侦讯的时候比负责侦讯的志木还要平静，凶手对案情的交待毫无保留，根据无须动用所谓的刑侦技巧，就让真相大白。根据凶手的自白，这是一椿受嘱杀人事件，案情发展至此似乎已无需再查了，然而事情并未结束，而象涟漪一样再逐渐扩大，侦探志木要挖掘出案件背后的隐情……

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.