Screenplay: Akiyuki Nosaka

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot A Japanese boy of 14 and his 4 year old sister, attempt to seek refuge from the atrocities of World War II in the small city of Kobe. In post-World...

Direction Tôya Satô

Cast Hoshi Ishida · Mao Sasaki · Yasunori Danda · Mayuko Fukuda

Plot A tragic film covering an aunt's struggle to survive in Japan during World War II whiling caring for her niece and nephew.

Direction Taro Hyugaji

Cast Reo Yoshitake · Rina Hatakeyama · Keiko Matsuzaka · Seiko Matsuda

Plot Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Shoichi Ozawa · Sumiko Sakamoto · Masaomi Kondo · Keiko Sagawa

Plot Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her...

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Shoichi Ozawa · Norihei Miki

Direction Tetsuo Yasumi

Plot "Kiku-chan to Okami" is an adaptation of "Grave of the Fireflies" author Akiyuki Nosaka’s short story "Toshi-Oi Mesu-Okami to Onna no Ko no Hanashi" (The Story of the Old Mother...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Yûnosuke Itô · Arihiro Fujimura · Takuya Fujioka

Plot Ganmen runs a funeral business whose star service is to make masks of the deceased's face. To measure it does not go back to any method, including loitering like a...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Keiko Takahashi · Masaaki Daimon · Keizo Kanie · Keiko Matsuzaka

Plot A young factory worker is picked up and courted by a clumsy youth with yakuza dreams, over one long day and a night. But in the fourteen years since Kisses,...