فیلم زندگی سخت خانواده ای چهار نفره که تنها ساکنان یک جزیره در ژاپن هستند را به تصویر می کشد.آنها چندین بار در طول روز به جزیره همسایه می روند تا برای مزارع خود آب تهیه کنند...

Daisuke (Yusaku Matsuda) is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and literature; his family is wealthy and can support his interests. When his friend Hiraoka (Kaoru Kobayashi) returns with his wife Michiyo (Miwako Fujitani), problems arise.

در آستانه جنگ روسیه و ژاپن در آغاز قرن بیستم، دختر شهر کوچک اوکان برای فرار از زندگی فقیرانه با پیرمردی ثروتمند ازدواج می کند اما ...

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them.

A lively and rambunctious samurai who has made a successful living out there and developed quite a reputation returns to his hometown just in time for big things to go down. His methods are unconventional, but work. A town busines...

A psychic housewife and her husband become burdened with a kidnapped girl who escaped her assailant. Junko will not let her husband call the hospital or the police for purely selfish reasons. The girl dies while still in their hou...

After a young shopkeeper steals the knife of one of his costumers, a samurai, a chain of increasingly complex events is set into motion.

A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with the help of the bathhouse owner's wife.

While avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.

Life story of a woman born in poverty trying to succeed. Through her many schemes, she faces her ups and downs in a cyclical nature, fueled mostly by self-interest.