Lightning

Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow, does what she can to keep her daughter Utako and son Seiichi safe, fed, and sheltered. By 1953, it's clear that the chil

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.

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

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

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

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

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

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

When poor peasants kidnap a magistrate's daughter to coerce him into reducing their unfair taxes, a wandering ronin decides to give them some help.

The story of a family in Tokyo who live under the same roof in a large house and include the widowed sixty-year-old mother, older son and his wife, the youngest daughter and the older daughter who, wh

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 lives of two slum neighbors, one of a happy-go-lucky gambler and the other of a poor ronin, converge when the two get involved with the affairs of a powerful samurai official and his gangsters.