Younger Sister
Akio's sister, Neri has separated from her boyfriend. They lived in Kamakura. She moves in with her brother. Her ex-boyfriend's sister, Eiko comes to see Neri. She wonders if the separation occurred due to her because the three of them used to live together. Eiko's brother has disappeared in the meantime.
The Discarnates
Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to a 'Rakugo' show, where a friendly man in the audience invites him home. Harada is puzzled at the strong resemblance of this man and his wife to his own parents, who were killed nearly 30 years ago when he was twelve.
Aka chôchin
A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.
Virgin Blues
Teenagers are rebels without a cause. Let it be for stress relief or just a way to kill time, Mami (Kumiko Akiyoshi) and Chiaki were always up to no good – but their luck runs out when they shoplift with some other girls at a local supermarket. They flee from the scene and head back home, only to find detectives at their front door.
Cute Devil
A man who's having an affair with one of his employees gets his penis cut off by the womans husband while she's watching. This case is big news and a man who claim to be a journalist begin to follow and talking to the wife, convinced that she's a completely innocent bystander.
Tora-san Plays Daddy
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as “daddy”.
Farewell to the Land
Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother who lives in Tokyo, Yukio has become an amphetamine-addicted loner at odds with his family, friends and colleagues.
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Toshiya Fujita
Director
Yuko Katagiri
as
Midori Iwakami
Hideko Yoshida
as
Minako
Kumiko Akiyoshi
as
Neri / Akio's sister
Kotoe Hatsui
as
Toyo
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Director
Tôru Minegishi
as
Yôji Matsuda
as
Takashi Sasano
as
Dentist
Chôichirô Kawarasaki
as
Rie Yokoyama
as
Hiroyuki Nagato
as
Middle-aged man
Miyoko Akaza
as
Yutaka Hayashi
as
Jun Miho
as
Akemi
Hidetaka Yoshioka
as
Mitsuo
Sumiko Hidaka
as
Ine Yamazawa
Kazuko Shirakawa
as
Prayer
Jinpachi Nezu
as
Yukio Yamazawa
Hisayasu Satô
