Bokuzen Hidari

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

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

In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.

A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.

After being wounded in a fight, Zatoichi is nursed to health by a young woman and her father. Now indebted to the family, he works to protect their ferry business from local thugs.

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a poetess. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and...

A military photographer takes a cute stewardess out to dinner where she is promptly kidnapped. Deciding that he has fallen in love with the girl, our "hero" decides to investigate her kidnapping himself.

The murder of an old man on sacred grounds provokes the intervention of vengeful yôkai (Japanese spirits.)

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajiro falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.

The adventures of a ronin, a samurai without a feudal lord, trying to achieve safety in a neighbouring domain.

Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taking in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence.

Sentimental comedy taking place at a harbour in the inland sea.

Based on one famous Rakugo comic stories, Un ga yokerya (Gambler's Luck) is a light comedy set in the slums of old Edo.