On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. They cherish the deepest affection for this piece of land they call home, and the simple life they lead. But rapid industrial growth makes it all but impossible to continue their chosen living style, and they are forced to leave their beloved hometown in search of a brighter future. But their hometown lingers on their hearts, and they dream of a time when they may once again return.

Masa hires rental actress and aspiring dancer, Kanako, to pose as his fiancée to impress his estrang...

Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergeneration...

An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to...

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot be...

On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are ...

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto ...

Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the...

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori cla...

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much...

Shortly after moving to the suburbs, the Kobayashis start to come undone. Convinced a family curse i...

A young Japanese boy searches for a mysterious vending machine after the passing of his parents.

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen in...

Sora and Umi (both played by Lee Tae-kyung) who were born to a Japanese father and a Korean mother a...

An older brother who can't fit into society, a father who has given up on his future, and a younger ...

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superp...

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's...

A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; ...

A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the d...

In the late 1800s, a Japanese samurai family, who recently immigrated to New York, clash with local ...