Cast: Kazuya Kosaka

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Yusuke Kawazu · Shima Iwashita · Ichiro Sugai · Kô Nishimura

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Akira Ishihama · Ineko Arima · Keiji Sada

Synopsis Five young men, close friends since high school, reunite in their hometown after having been away for many years. This brief respite brings back their fond memories of earlier, simpler lives, yet all are eventually forced to admit that there...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Teiji Takahashi · Yoshiko Kuga · Kanzaburo Nakamura · Rentarô Mikuni

Synopsis Yasuko, a dissatisfied housewife struggling to make ends meet, leaves his husband working in Tokyo and returns to her parents' home in Nagano, so the couple can rent their home for the summer and pay the mortage. In Nagano she...

Direction Shun Nakahara

Cast Setsuko Karasuma · Toshinori Omi · Ako · Natsuki Asakawa

Direction Ken Yoshida

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Sachiko Sakurai · Maki Mochida · Masaki Kyômoto

Synopsis A high school teacher with a series of misfortunes has his life doomed by falling in love with his troubled student.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Teiji Takahashi · Yoshiko Kuga · Takahiro Tamura · Minoru Oki

Synopsis Suda and Sagawa are coworking friends at a steel mill. Suda is new to the plant and is starting to despair at the idea of spending the rest of his life there. Sagawa has accepted his role at the factory...

Direction Nobuhiko Hosaka

Cast Yoshinori Monta · Rino Katase · Kyôko Enami · Haruko Wanibuchi

Direction Masaharu Takahashi

Cast Yû Hayami · Koichi Sato · Helen Myslinski Ingham · Shigeru Izumiya

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Yûji Oda · Takeshi Kaga · Kazuya Kosaka · Mayu Tsuruta

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Mariko Okada · Eitarô Ozawa · Michiko Araki

Synopsis The household of a wealthy family is thrown into an uproar when an elderly potato vendor suffers a stroke on their living room floor.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kazuya Kosaka · Kyoko Aoi · Toyo Takahashi · Masaaki Hirao

Synopsis After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords...

Direction Hideo Onchi

Cast Kazuo Araki · Michiyo Aratama · Noriko Honma · Natsuko Kahara

Synopsis Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Noriko Maki · Yusuke Kawazu · Kazuya Kosaka

Synopsis Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.

Direction Shunichi Kajima

Cast Kyôhei Shibata · Atsuo Nakamura · Masahiko Tsugawa · Kazuya Kosaka

Synopsis In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a...

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Hitomi Kuroki · Akira Terao · Toshio Shiba

Synopsis Based on the bestselling novel by Junichi Watanabe, is about the fated love affair between Shoichiro, a middle-aged man who has come to regret devoting his whole life to his work, and Rinko, a beautiful woman trapped in a married...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Kazuya Kosaka · Noriko Maki · Yashiyo Otori · Masaaki Hirao

Synopsis Shirai is a young saxophone player who has just been given the chance to prove his abilities. That very same night he meets Mitsuko, a girl in despair who has just learnt that her lover is married. Shirai helps her...

Direction Takahito Hara · Tetsuya Nakashima · Yukihiko Tsutsumi · Eriko Watanabe

Cast Haruko Sagara · Tsuyoshi Ihara · Narumi Yasuda · Yasuo Daichi