Cast: Katsunobu Ito

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Jūzō Itami · Saori Yuki · Ichirôta Miyakawa

Synopsis A sendup of the stereo-typical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom...

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Misaki Ito · Mimura · Aoi Yû · Koichi Sato

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Katsunobu Ito · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Isao Bitô · Kazuki Kosakai

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Ryo Amamiya · Zenkichi Yoneyama · Natsuki Ozawa · Ginjo Gao

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 Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Tokito Saburo · Yoshiko Miyazaki · Jun Miho · Masatô Ibu

Direction Yasuo Hasegawa · Tsutomu Kashima · Naoto Yamakawa

Cast Mitsuru Hirata · Hideko Hara · Rikako Murakami · Katsunobu Ito

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Kumiko Goto · Tôru Nakamura · Tomomi Satô · Ken Ogata

Synopsis University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has leukaemia and has only 6 months to live. So the mother entreats Akira to be...

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Moe Kamura · Mariko Fuji · Susumu Fujita

Synopsis Based on the book of the same name.

Direction Yasukazu Sugiyama

Cast Katsunobu Ito · Ken'ichi Matsuyama · Keiko Kitagawa · Isao Bitô

Synopsis Shinden visits former disciples after being asked by his master to find Shintoto, a member of his rakugoka storytelling family.

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Mayumi Terashima · Mai Inoue · Ryoko Watanabe · Chie Yamaguchi