2008 film by Hirokazu Koreeda

A depressed widower, a bored housewife, and a gay lawyer all intersect in this triptych of love lost.

Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that's done, she heads to her day job as a supermarket cashier. Minako is 50 and single. In one of the houses to which she delivers milk is a man with whom she has secretly been in love since high school. The man, Keita (KISHIBE Ittoku), lives with his wife Yoko, who is terminally ill. Caring for her at home, he works in the children's affairs section of the local municipal office. Though he insists that he wants nothing more than an "ordinary" existence, his life is in turmoil below the surface. The director uses a variety of narrative devises to portray the loneliness, isolation, and hope of these people who have seemingly allowed their goals and dreams to slip away, whilst keeping them agonizingly close to hand.

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to life once again.

小小年纪便声名鹊起的广末凉子后继乏力，而今同时干着婚礼主持人、房屋清扫、临时演员等工作赚取营生。她渴望美好的爱情，对同世代光辉亮丽的女星竹内结子充满羡慕和嫉妒。同样是曾有过辉煌演艺生涯的井川遥，幸运地和一位出色的男子（藤木直人 饰）相会，只不过对方似乎另有家室，这让她惴惴不安。广末和井川时常出没的酒吧，其经营者则是也在演艺圈沉浮一时的齐藤由贵。而今齐藤夜晚经营酒吧，白天则与20多岁的女孩一同坐在大学课堂学习。当毕业来临之际，她突然感到有些迷茫。 命运不经意间和三位女性开了玩笑，在平行的宇宙里，她们各自为了幸福打拼……

真木阳子、水川麻美、竹内结子，三位现如今在日本影视界如日中天的青年女演员，其名下各自有一串闪亮光辉的作品名字。不过有没有这样一种可能，如果她们当初都在决定命运的那次试镜中失利，会发生怎样的故事呢？ 时间为2010年，热爱表演的真木阳子依然只能演些甚至不露脸的小配角，她四处打工，偶然邂逅了某出版社编辑，经对方鼓动准备将画有自己日常的漫画《日刊 真木阳子》拿去发表。水川麻美经常被已经成名的同期白石奈绪所奚落，恼怒之际她结识了真木阳子，两人大吐胸中苦水，烦恼过后却依然四处参加试听，寻找成名的机会。在某出版社担任编辑的竹内结子接到了将《日刊 真木阳子》出版的企划，本并不看好这本书的她不经意间和阳子、麻美产生交集。她们不知不觉间影响着彼此的命运……

34岁的早川基子（小林聡美饰）在一家信用金库工作，她和好友兼同事马场万里子（小泉今日子饰）是单位里同期进去的员工里唯二没有结婚的，没有爱情，在家里被母亲（白石加代子饰）当做孩童般管束；工作也是一日一日的简单重复，基子对这样的人生感到迷茫。 有一天，万里子突然带着3亿日元出逃，她打了通电话给基子告诉其要“精彩过日子。”基子怀着复杂的心情失声痛哭，之后，她开始重新审视自己的生活。 基子无意间走到一个名为“Happiness三茶”的地方，在那里竟然邂逅了20年前的玩伴龟山绊（ともさかりえ饰），最终基子搬来这里，和天真妹房东芝本ゆか（市川実日子饰）、贫穷而乐观的绊、人生经验丰富的教授（浅丘ルリ子饰）开始了一段美好的同居生活。

Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of her again. Since that time, Koji (Kazunari Ninomiya) appears in front of her and they reminiscence about pleasant times. These happy, but bizarre moments seem eternal.

昭和初年，大侦探胜吕武尊（野村万斋 饰）乘东洋特快返回东京，谁知途中遭遇匪夷所思的事件。粗鲁蛮横的实业家藤堂（佐藤浩市 饰）在梦中惨遭杀害，而凶手可能就是该车厢中的一人。凭借现场的蛛丝马迹，胜吕对列车员三木（西田敏行 饰）、藤堂的秘书慕内（二宫和也 饰）、管家益田（小林隆 饰）、贵妇人羽鸟（富司纯子 饰）、侯爵夫人（草笛光子 饰）及其侍从昼出川（青木沙耶香 饰）、外交官安藤（玉木宏 饰）及其夫人（杏 饰）、陆军大佐能登（泽村一树 饰）、私家侦探羽佐间（池松壮亮 饰）、汽车销售员保土田（藤本隆宏 饰）、家庭教师马场（松岛菜菜子 饰）、教会人员吴田（八木亚希子 饰）等十数人展开问询。每个人都有确凿的不在场证明，众人的证词却又有离奇反常之处。在此期间，另一起沉疴数年的案件浮出水面，引出藤堂遇害背后的真相…… 本片根据阿加莎·克里斯蒂的经典原作改编。

Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.

Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make an equally strong impression on his reluctant medical intern, Keisuke Soma. But, Soma and the villagers reconsider their opinion when they learn about a shameful incident from Dr. Ino's past. Now the once-respected doctor must account for his past actions.

Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and his father's acceptance and support in a touching and refreshing way.

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.

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.

2016 Japanese film directed by Yōji Yamada

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.

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Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.

Japanese anime film