Early Spring

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

Despite paternal disapproval, the heir of a wealthy family embarks on a relationship with a Geisha.

A mother searches for her missing son after a devastating calamity, only to realize that she has died and is now confined to a realm of restless spirits.

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not giv

The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.

A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.

Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.