Cast: Toshie Kobayashi

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Eri Ishida · Mariko Kaga · Shinnosuke Furumoto

Synopsis A strange fantasy depicting the love between a gradually rejuvenating woman and a very ordinary middle-aged man.

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Misaki Ito · Mimura · Aoi Yû · Koichi Sato

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Choichiro Kawarazaki · Toshie Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Chikako Natsumi

Synopsis Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while...

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Seiyô Uchino · Shinobu Otake · Masahiko Nishimura · Misato Tanaka

Synopsis A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to know if her policy will pay out. Concerned about her safety, the agent...

Direction Yoichi Maeda

Cast Kaori Momoi · Tsunehiko Watase · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Kirin Kiki

Direction Azuma Morisaki

Cast Mitsuko Baisho · Yoshio Harada · Mitsuru Hirata · Tonpei Hidari

Synopsis A traveling stripper, Barbara came back to Nagoya. The second floor of a rice shop managed by Takeko in Okinawa Village was her residence, her inner husband Miyazato and her best friend Aiko were supposed to be waiting. On that...

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Yukiyo Toake · Gô Awazu · Takashi Ebata

Synopsis During the summer of 1962, a young Japanese teen--Tatsuo--is worried, like most of his peers, about his entrance examinations to high school. Moreover, he's developed a crush on his female classmate, Eiko.

Direction Mitsuaki Iwagô

Cast Ginpunchō · Tasuku Emoto · Shôno Hayama · Yuki Katayama

Synopsis Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his cat Tama. Daikichi was born and raised on the small island and enjoys relaxing days with his childhood friends including...

Direction Junya Sato

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Chieko Baisho · Masato Furuoya · Go Wakabayashi

Synopsis Adventure-drama based on the life of Naomi Uemura (Nishida), the first Japanese mountain climber to scale most of the world's highest peaks and explore the arctic and Antarctic.

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Ken Tanaka · Tomohiro Tanabe · Ken Matsuda · Haruhiko Urayama

Synopsis Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's father dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a...

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Kumi Mizuno · Haruka Kinami · Yukijiro Hotaru · Yuri Nakamura