Margaret finds herself in the glittering labyrinth of Tokyo by night and as a respected english teacher of a Japanese flight attendant academy by day. With little life direction, Margaret…

Suzumoto and Sumi creatively master their independent lives while living in a park in Nagoya. In contrast, a middle-class family is caught up in pressure and routine. The two threads…

Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of…

Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki’s sixth decade behind the camera, “A Boy’s Summer in 1945” (literally “A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima”) is a lyric, novelistic drama set in the…

Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san’s behalf in a case of mistaken identity.

Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san’s nephew joins Hama-chan’s department at the company.

Su-San invites Hama-chan to go fishing at a place close to his heart after learning about Hama-chan and his wife’s fertility problems.

Hama-chan gets Su-san hooked on fishing, but Su-san has some problems to deal with; a beautiful woman saves Su-san when he collapses while fishing.

Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo office. After settling in to his surrounding along with his wife Eri, Densuke befriends…

Beautiful young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who’s vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon, and by most of the remaining family as a…