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The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

The starting point for this film was the question, “Should I become a parent?” Having come from a troubled home, and never having felt loved by his father, the director wonders what kind of father he would be. Or if he should even become one. A shojo (young girl) gives birth, despite never having given motherhood a thought. Indifferent, she leaves her breasts behind, forcing her son to fend for himself. Desiring love, the man-boy sets out in the sampled city to find his mother, who gives him an icy-cold greeting before self-destructing. These are the experiences of fear, desire and loneliness of young people in Japan. This is their Tokyo Story.

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.

Three sisters live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father – absent from the family home for the last 15 years – dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral, and meet their shy teenage half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them.

An erotic drama starring sexy actress Abeno Miku. Mihiro, who lives with her mother, is told by her mother that she wants to start living with her boyfriend Sawada. Sawada has an only son, Kenichi, and Mihiro, who is impatient, becomes dependent on Kenichi... This erotic comedy depicts the strange cohabitation of a single-mother household and a single-father household. The story is told with a touch of cynical humor, centering on the free-spirited and devilish daughter played by sexy actress Abeno Miku, and depicts the two families coming together as one. Having graduated from high school, Mihiro (Abeno) is excited about living with her single mother, who is dating her boyfriend with the intention of remarrying, but she is confused by his university student son Kenichi (Yuki), who is not used to being around women, so she acts like a little sister and behaves like a dependent.

After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.

Spending time with people who regularly steal from shops, Stacey gets to grips with the shoplifting epidemic and what it’s like for the frontline staff trying to prevent thefts.

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

A documentary filmed behind the scenes during the making of Hirokasu Kore-eda's 2008 film "Still Walking."

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.