Cast: Kiminobu Okumura

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Yoshie Ichige · Pinko Izumi · Shingo Tsurumi

Plot Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One New...

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Cast Jinpachi Nezu · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Jirô Chiba · Miyako Yamaguchi

Plot The film opens with the drowning deaths of farmer Yukio's two sons. Their deaths send him on a course of self-destruction. Blaming himself, he breaks with his family and wife,...

Direction Takashi Ishii

Cast Shinobu Otake · Masatoshi Nagase · Hideo Murota · Naoto Takenaka

Plot Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man.

Direction Yōjirō Takita

Cast Takeshi Kaga · Kaori Momoi · Hiromi Iwasaki · Mitsunori Isaki

Plot Comedy about a family and their obsession for making money.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Kumiko Akiyoshi · Takuro Atsuki · Yosuke Katsuno · Akira Emoto