Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.

十七世纪的日本，正处于德川幕府统治的强盛时期。时为第四代将军家纲（染谷将太 饰）当政，出身围棋世家的安井算哲（冈田准一 饰）在具有高超棋艺之余，还热衷算术和天文。在会津藩藩主保科正之（松本幸四郎 饰）的推荐下，他和一众专业人士展开艰苦而漫长的星象观测之旅。观测结果证明，日本从唐朝引进并一直沿用长达八百年的宣明历已经出现不少的偏差。以位高权重的水户光圀（中井贵一 饰）等武家贵胄为代表，希望借此机会制订一部精确实用的本土历法。然而这项工作不仅艰难浩大，还面临来自京都皇族的压力。长达十数年的博弈，算哲最为跌宕和辉煌的人生……
本片根据冲方丁的同名小说改编。

Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Kobayashi Makoto, who has just committed suicide. Watched over by a neutral spirit named Purapura, the soul must figure out what his greatest sin and mistake in his former life was, before his time limit in Makoto's body runs out. He also has a number of other lesser duties he must complete, such as understanding what led Makoto to commit suicide in the first place and learning how to enjoy his second chance at life.

2005 Japanese drama film directed by Kentarō Ōtani

2013 film by Yuya Ishii

A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.

After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.

Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika Hokusai and his second wife Koto. Although Oei became the wife of a town painter for a time, her love of the paintbrush more than her husband spelt disaster and she comes back home to Hokusai from the family she had married into. This is how Oei starts to help her father out in his painting of the “insurmountable high wall”. Meanwhile, Oei can only talk to the painter Ikeda Zenjiro, who is her father’s student, about her pain and worries. Zenjiro has taken Edo by storm as Keisai Eisen, the master of ukiyo-e portraying beautiful women. He visits regularly because he admires Hokusai and secretly likes Oei although their relationship is like childhood friends. Oei respects her father whose paintings fascinated her and continues to work as a painter who supports him behind the scenes. When Hokusai’s masterpiece Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji was completed, she was also by his side.

小野寺理纱（宫崎葵饰）四年前在婚礼上遭遇新郎逃婚，现如今心情已经平复，一直跟父母生活在一起。其父亲俊作（松重丰饰）曾经是糕点生产公司的营业部部长，现因人事变动被调到了其他的部门，而该部门新上任的部长就是俊作曾经的下属兵头幸太郎（永山瑛太饰）。其母真知子（松坂庆子饰）是一个性格开朗的家庭主妇，经常去仓桥响子（一路真辉饰）开的插花班上课。仓桥响子的前夫村上洋一（六平直政饰）是俊作的发小兼前辈，他经营了一家小酒馆，俊作是他家的常客。
四年前父亲俊作为了想和女儿女婿住在一起建了一栋双户型的别墅，然而因为理纱被逃婚，现在就理纱、俊作以及真知子，这一家三口住在别墅里。某天理纱说自己被求婚了，要带个对象回来给俊作和真知子看看，谁知带回来的人竟然是兵头幸太郎。之前的下属，现如今成了自己的上司兼准女婿……
理纱和幸太郎的感情究竟会如何发展？理纱、幸太郎会和俊作及真知子同住在一个屋檐下吗？

2000 film directed by Shinji Aoyama

Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.

13-year-old Sachiko is about to encounter the most difficult moments in her young life. Her father abandons her and her mother attempts to commit suicide by slashing her wrist. Her teacher, whom she relies on heavily, leaves for northern Japan to take another job. Other students start to gossip about Sachiko and her former teacher. Sachiko then drops out of school and attempts to find herself.

婚后五年，在某网络公司上班的髙野干夫（堺雅人 饰）和毫不卖座的漫画家妻子小晴（宮﨑あおい 饰）过着平静的生活。干夫为人纤细，一丝不苟，习惯每天早上做便当，按照不同日期搭配便当的奶酪和领带。但是在巨大的工作压力下，干夫看似平静的内心渐渐失衡，他甚至一度企图自杀，经问诊才发现自己已经患了抑郁症。一向专注工作、神经大条的小晴回想，似乎早在几个月前干夫的身上便已出现了些许迹象。为了让丈夫尽快恢复健康，小晴以离婚相要挟迫使干夫辞职休养。失去了生活来源，髙野夫妇的生活陷入了前所未有的困境，但他们也在相互扶持的道路上获得了久违的快乐……
本片为細川貂々根据和丈夫望月昭真实经历撰写的同名原作改编，望月昭本人亦在片中客串角色。

2007 film by Joji Matsuoka