Soundtrack: Teizo Matsumura

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Tomoyo Harada · Manami Honjou · Kaoru Kobayashi · Matsuoka Shunsuke

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

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

Plot Based on the book of the same name.

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Akira Terao · Naomi Hosokawa · Nagiko Tono

Plot A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer of 1994 to find himself the prime...

Direction Tetsutaro Murano

Cast Hisashi Igawa · Yûko Katagiri · Atsuko Kawaguchi · Choichiro Kawarazaki

Plot Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter’s onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for fair Fumiko.

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Eiji Okuda · Keiko Kishi · Kyôko Kagawa · Mieko Harada

Direction Takeshi Yoshida

Cast Shinobu Otake · Emi Wakui · Masayuki Watanabe · Rie Yokoyama

Plot A nurse devotes herself to a patient who hovers between life and death. She is also struggles with her love and job.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Masatoshi Nagase · Emi Wakui · Miyoko Asada

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Kaori Momoi · Kaho Minami · Nobuko Sendô · Michiko Araki

Plot On 9 August 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film describes the daily life of people the day before that fateful event, their feelings of joy...

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Rie Miyazawa · Yoshio Harada · Tadanobu Asano

Plot Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as...

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Kôji Shimizu · Rie Kimura · Mayumi Miura · Yoshimi Ashikawa

Plot Nakata, a writer, lives with the painful memory of the death of his wife, whose life was cut short a few years earlier. Was it an accident or was it...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Miki Sakai · Atsuro Watabe · Jô Shishido · Masumi Okada

Plot Two young people meet by chance and fall in love but the woman is diagnosed with leprosy and sent away to a remote mountain sanitorium.

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Obdulia Plasencia · Masahiko Tsugawa · Gloria Lee · Armando Urbach