2010 anime film directed by Yasuichiro Yamamoto

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.

2012 film by Takashi Miike

After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.

平凡的高中生鸭川嘉郎（染谷将太 饰）本以为日子就会这么不咸不淡的度过。直到某一天，他发现他突然能听到别人脑中所思所想。这种被称作超能力的事物，一开始让鸭川不知该怎么运用。最初鸭川只把这种能力用到暗恋的女生浅见纱英（真野惠里菜 饰）身上。而后，鸭川发现，他居然不是唯一的超能力者。在他的周围潜藏着各路高手，他的青梅竹马平野美由纪（夏帆 饰）可以与之用意念交流；镇上咖啡店的店长，则可以用意念移动物体；而学校篮球队的成员，可以瞬间位移…… 这些刚刚觉醒拥有超能力的人，起初都只把这些能力用来谋福利和方便。直到恶势力的入侵，他们开始联手，用自己的超能力捍卫自己生存的土地，与恶势力们展开了精彩且激烈的争斗。

2004年，34岁的松本朔太郎（绪形直人 饰）收到高中老师寄来的明信片，将他封闭且逃避了17年的记忆带回到17岁的那个夏天。1987年。高中时代的朔太郎（山田孝之 饰）和广濑亚纪（绫濑遥 饰）的恋爱非常甜蜜，对两人来说快乐的瞬间感觉就像永远一样。自从亚纪得了不治之症后，两人的命运发生了急转弯。虽然亚纪在努力对抗病魔，但现实毕竟是残酷的，在朔要带亚纪去澳大利亚乌鲁鲁的时候，亚纪却在机场晕倒了。虽然这是无法改变的事实，但失去亚纪让朔太郎对于人生、爱情产生了永久的失落感。 “我17岁时，在没有她的世界。”17年后，朔太郎是否能找到那把走出迷宫的钥匙？可以亲手送走了一直弥留在自己心中的亚纪吗？

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

After a young boy captures a rare butterfly in Nagasaki, a caterpillar begins a relay-trip toward the northern tip of Hokkaido, serving as a silent witness to a series of vignettes featuring people struggling with the psychological and social scars of post-war Japan.

1960 film by Nagisa Ōshima

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

1958 film by Mikio Naruse

1952 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

2012 film by Abbas Kiarostami

2006 film by Yōji Yamada

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.

1970s Japan saw the rise of biker gangs, known as Bōsōzoku, which drew the interest of the media. God Speed You! Black Emperor follows a member of the bike gang and his interaction with his parents, after he gets in trouble with the police.

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him. His counterpart is his older sister, who defends her own interests regardless of the consequences. Her determination to better herself, her willingness to do anything to escape poverty, is emblematic of Japanese post-war society. Yoichi, on the other hand, has only the binoculars left to him by an uncle to help him dream about another world, far away from his family. The film’s melancholy tone depicts Yoichi’s fate as inescapable: “Man’s happiness or sadness is fixed before birth”, he declares at some point. By the end, the conflict between obligation and fulfilling your dreams has given way to quiet resignation. 秋本洋一の家は、ある下町の隅で魚屋をやっており、父源吉、母お新、姉豊子、妹和枝等の弟妹と七人家族で細々と暮していた。洋一は魚屋が嫌いで船乗りに憧れ叔父から貰った双眼鏡を手に毎日二階から遠くを眺めていた。姉の豊子は貧乏が嫌いで、恋人の須藤と結婚の約束をしていたが、彼の父が事業に失敗したと聞くと彼から離れた。次いで豊子は新たに、金持の五十男との話を家族の反対をよそに一人で進めていた。こうした時、源吉は心臓病で倒れた。洋一は父と母の言葉に、魚屋になる決心をした。こうした洋一を慰めてくれるのは、双眼鏡に写る少女の姿であった。ある日、洋一と友人の原田は双眼鏡の少女の家を探し当てたが、その少女は、いたいたしい病身の身で嫁いで行くところだった。洋一の姉豊子は、勤務先の課長に親代りになってもらい、五十男の後妻になったが、別れた筈の須藤と箱根で遊んだりする無軌道ぶりを示していた。こうした彼女を探す夫の電話に、病をおして出た父源吉は、くずれるように倒れた。源吉の死後、妹の和枝は大阪の叔父幸造に引き取られていった。原田の母喜代からは、親友の一家が北海道に転任することを知らされ、若い洋一の上には、次から次へと厳しい現実の波が打ち寄せてきた。それから四年、洋一は茨の道を雄々しく切り開き、今は小ぎれいな店で母と共に、あざやかな手つきで刺身を切っていた。夕やけ雲の下、細々と立つ夕げの煙を前に崖に立つ洋一は、“さようなら、俺の愛していたみんな、遠メガネの女も、妹も、友達も、船乗りに憧れた青春の夢も”と呟いた。

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them.