The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.

A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. However, her younger sister opposes this, thinking that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them.

1955 film by Mikio Naruse

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

2008 anthology film

After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much.

1999 film directed by Nagisa Ōshima

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.

2008 film by Hirokazu Koreeda

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always encloses money in her letters to him, until one hard winter there is no work to be found.

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.

1954 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

2004 film by Hirokazu Koreeda

1954 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

土气柔弱的青年根岸崇一梦想成为帅气的流行歌手。为了实现音乐之梦，他从乡下来到东京闯荡。然而除了一只小狗，没有听众欣赏他自弹自唱的甜蜜蜜的情歌。 机缘巧合之下，根岸和唱片公司DEATH RECORD签了约。原以为终于能以得意之作《覆盆子之吻》出道乐坛，没想到公司女老板竟把他安排进了恶魔型死亡金属摇滚乐队“Detroit Metal City”当了吉他手兼主唱。从此根岸刷白了脸、打扮成大魔王的样子，以约翰纳·克劳泽二世的艺名登上了舞台。除了他之外，DMC还有贝司手亚历山大·杰基和鼓手加缪（秋山龙次饰）。乐队很快以夸张的装扮、生猛的乐风以及爆炸性的舞台表演风格赢得了年轻人们的追捧。 “我是地狱的恐怖分子，杀杀杀杀死一切！”DMC越来越红，相继击败了同类乐队中的劲敌、着名朋克乐队、HIPHOP界的名手，创造出一个又一个传奇。 我可不喜欢这样的音乐啊！——根岸虽然满心苦恼，但又不得不继续在台上扮演大魔王。让他头痛的是，自己暗恋的美女相川由利最讨厌这种风格的乐队。在她面前，他费尽心机隐瞒自己的真实身份。 美国的顶尖死亡金属摇滚乐队“Jack ill Dark”宣布即将举行解散前的最后一次世界巡演，他们将日本演唱会的对手锁定为了DMC。 音乐是美好的梦想，音乐也是现实的工作。在乐迷的瞩目中，在根岸的矛盾和不安中，DMC与JID对决的时刻来临了…… 幕后制作 搞笑漫画上银幕 在佳作如林的日本漫画世界中，若杉公德的《重金摇滚双面人》绝对算得上是经典CULT作品。这是一部以音乐为舞台的爆笑青年漫画，自2005年开始连载以来，很快通过口口相传获得了大批拥趸。漫画单行本曾一度成为日本AMAZON上销量最高的书籍类商品，目前累积销量已经超过了三百万册！该作还在宝岛社举办的2006年度“这部漫画真棒！”投票评选中坐上了男性单元的冠军宝座。这部漫画的引人注目之处不光在于销量，更在于它毁誉参半的争鸣性。故事的男主人公是个纯情处男，职业却是视觉系重金属摇滚乐队DMC的歌手，他只要化上妆踏上舞台就变身成了台风癫狂暴力、满口血腥和性的恶魔。该漫画的香港版名为《爆粗Band友》，由于过激的内容和粗口被列为18**籍。

Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.

1983 film directed by Shōhei Imamura