Die 28-jährige Tochter einer Familie soll, um nicht als alte Jungfer zu enden, endlich unter die Haube kommen. Sotaro Satake, Norikos Chef, hat einen Freund namens Manabe, den er mit Noriko zusammenbringen möchte. Noriko hat allerdings ganz andere Pläne.

"Guten Morgen!" - "Ohayo!" - rufen Minoru und Isamu, die beiden Söhne von Keitaro und seiner Frau Tamiko, allen zu, denen sie in ihrem Viertel in der Vorstadt von Tokio begegnen. Ohne sich dessen bewusst zu sein, werden sie zum Auslöser eines nachbarlichen Streits. Als ihr Vater sich weigert, ihnen einen Fernsehapparat zu kaufen, geraten sie mit ihren Eltern aneinander.

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.

Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he thinks the ghosts are at work.

Kohei has suffered from hearing loss since middle school and had trouble fitting in with those around him. Now a university student, Kohei meets the outgoing Taichi in the university courtyard. Their friendship becomes one in which they can say whatever is on their minds, but Kohei, who has grown used to keeping people from getting too close, now faces escalating expectations and anxiety the stronger his bonds with Taichi becomes.

Rosa Moline, verheiratet mit dem allseits beliebten Landarzt Dr. Lewis Moline, lebt in der netten Kleinstadt Loyalton im Staat Wisconsin – in Umständen, die normalerweise Glück und Zufriedenheit erwarten lassen. Doch Rosa ist nicht glücklich; sie langweilt sich, hasst die Provinz und will nach Chicago. Sie beginnt eine Affäre mit dem Industriellen Neil Latimer, der sie jedoch keineswegs zu heiraten und aus ihrer Misere zu befreien gedenkt...

AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in the 1960s, profiling a nineteen-year-old serial killer Norio Nagayama. An indictment of media sensationalism, the film humanizes the young man by situating his crimes in the larger context of his environment.

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.

A filmed version of Aaron Copland's most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.

Naoki once had it all - the fast car, the executive home. Boss of his own business he lived the good-life when Japan's economy was at it's height. Then the bubble burst - and he met Yoshie.

Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.

Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of childhood as well as the tragedy of maturity.

A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.

Hirayama, ein verwitweter Vater, lebt mit seinem jüngsten Sohn und seiner 24-jährigen Tochter zusammen, die sich aufopferungsvoll um das Wohlergehen ihres Vaters und ihres Bruders kümmert.

Paris by night. Alex, 22, wants to become a filmmaker. He is fascinated by first times and his girlfriend, Florence, has just left him for his best friend, Thomas. First break-up, first attempted murder: Alex tries to strangle Thomas, but gives up and wanders the streets. That evening, Mireille, a girl from provincial France who has come up to Paris to make commercials, is left by her boyfriend. Alex witnesses this separation. These two tormented souls run into each other at a party.

Follow a small group of elderly “Peeping Toms” through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely documented by the participants themselves, we follow the debased and shocking actions of a group of true sociopaths the likes of which have never been seen before. Inhabiting a world of broken dreams and beyond the limits of morality, they crash against a torn and frayed America.

Three Italian retirees embark on a journey to find a new country to live in.

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Sieben Jahre nach dem Tod ihres besten Freundes wollen drei alternde Männer die Tochter des Verstorbenen unter die Haube bringen. Doch Ayako, 24, denkt gar nicht ans Heiraten, lieber lebt sie weiterhin glücklich mit ihrer Mutter Akiko zusammen. Und so beschließt das Trio, dass noch vor der Tochter die Mutter heiraten muss – am besten einen von ihnen. Daraufhin kommt es zur Entfremdung zwischen Mutter und Tochter, die nun tatsächlich den ihr zugedachten Heiratskandidaten ins Auge fasst … «Meine Güte, ist das alles kompliziert», heißt es auf dem Höhepunkt der melancholisch-burlesken Verwicklungen.