Daniel reist samen met zijn leraar Miyagi naar Okinawa om daar Miyagi's op sterven liggende vader te bezoeken. Tijdens zijn verblijf in z'n geboorteland wordt Miyagi weer geconfronteerd met zijn aartsvijand en de nog altijd aanwezige vete tussen hen. Daniel leert veel over de oude Japanse tradities en de erecodes, wanneer ook hij verwikkeld raakt in deze vendetta.
Remake van Ozu's eigen Umarete wa Mita Keredo (1932). Omdat de jongens Minoru en Isamu voortdurend zeuren over het feit dat ze een tv willen hebben, zeggen hun ouders dat ze stil moeten zijn.
De Yamadas zijn een doodgewoon gezinnetje dat samen in een huisje ergens in een buitenwijk van Tokio woont. De gezinsleden hebben allemaal zo hun probleempjes en eigenaardigheden, en kunnen het niet altijd even goed met elkaar vinden.
Een familie leeft alleen op een geïsoleerd eiland en ontwikkelt unieke normen en waarden betreffende seksualiteit. Zo is incest volledig geaccepteerd, is de patriarch vader en grootvader tegelijk van zijn zoon, en is de achterlijke dochter seksueel verslaafd.
A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom a tutor must be hired. The tutor, played by the prototypical bad boy actor Matsuda Yusaku, proceeds to blow the entire family apart.
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountain hut for the summer season of climbers. When Toru grows up, he leaves his hometown and enters the working world as a stock trader. One day, Toru receives word that his father has passed away. He returns to Mount Tate once again, and becomes conscious of a new calling. But, does Toru have what it takes to follow in his father footsteps?
A Japanes widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines of WW2.
A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into his son’s death, what appears to be a tragic accident turns out to have been the result of multiple blunders by multiple people.
A Japanese family having tea.
Masa hires rental actress and aspiring dancer, Kanako, to pose as his fiancée to impress his estranged, terminally-ill father. But as his father's death delays, Masa is forced to confront the spiraling web of lies and to learn to follow his heart.
Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a hitch-hiking chainsaw murderer, Minako decides to spice up her life by finding a young lover and running off with him by faking her kidnapping. While her family frets and worries, Minako has a wonderful time. Eventually, though, she decides it's time to go back to her family. Her lover, however, isn't ready for the fun to end, and Minako's fake kidnapping soon becomes all too real.
Sora and Umi (both played by Lee Tae-kyung) who were born to a Japanese father and a Korean mother and raised in South Korea. Sora now lives in Shanghai and works as an illustrator. When she meets a Japanese guy named Mochizuki, they become close. This is when her sibling Umi visits. Umi was born inter-sex and had undergone gender reassignment surgery to become a woman. Umi encourages Sora and Mochizuki to fall in love, but Sora becomes mentally unstable.
A Japanese couple honeymoon at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. That night the wife finds her husband's dead body and a video tape of the brutal murder. A NYPD Detective, first at the murder scene, attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery of the murder in the locked room.
A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.
A young Japanese boy searches for a mysterious vending machine after the passing of his parents.