Balloon Club Revisited

A family struggling to live together even with the outrageous behaviors from each family members.

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

As a Labrador puppy, Quill is sent to live with a couple, Isamu and Mitsuko Nii, who work as volunteers, training guide dogs (seeing eye dogs). When he grows to an adult dog, he is taken to a guide do

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Yuko is 35 years old, single, out of work, and on medication from her psychiatrist to combat her manic depression. Living in Kamata Town, Yuko divides her time between a variety of men friends, each w

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.

A diving club is in danger of going bankrupt. To save the diving club, a female coach returns from the U.S. to coach the club and promises that a diver from the club will make the Japanese Olympic tea

A successful businessman's family life is shattered by an early onset of Alzheimer's.

Matsutaro Yasuda, a retired girl's High School Principal who has lost his wife to alcoholism and is forsaken by his daughter, moves to an old apartment in a country town. Yasuda, at his new address, m

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.

Mari and her puppies survive an earthquake by protecting their puppies and waiting for their owner's return.

A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.