Mother

A mother and daughter facing major life changes and how their love challenges and sustains them.

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

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

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

Poor, pathetic mother Ose has four children, three daughters and a son, by four different men.

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

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

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

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 childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis.

When the patriarch of the Toda family suddenly dies, his widow discovers that he has left her with nothing but debt and married children who are unwilling to support her--except for her most thoughtfu

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a young, smart boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to other people's needs, she will end by taking part herself in one