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.

　　平凡的一家人阿文（陈以文 饰）和琴姐（柯淑勤 饰）育有两个儿子，叛逆的小儿子阿和（巫建和 饰）与好友菜头（刘冠廷 饰）砍伤人进了少年辅育院，但阿和的女友小玉（吴岱凌 饰）却带着身孕来家里…琴姐不顾阿文反对，将小玉留下来照顾。此时，被砍伤者家属也来找阿文求取巨额赔偿，阿文受不了总是带来麻烦的小儿子，将所有希望都寄托在资优生大儿子阿豪（许光汉 饰）身上，却不知道温暖善良的阿豪心中也藏着不为人知的秘密…

2017 film by Marc Webb

To protect his family from a mysterious being, a man joins forces with a journalist and an exorcist - but they come to learn what they are dealing with is beyond their imagination.

岸边满（生田斗真 饰），31岁，无业。父亲在早年间去世，目前和母亲房枝（原田美枝子 饰）居住在一起。虽然无论给谁来看，岸边满就是一个整日里无所事事的家里蹲废柴，可是对于自己的所作所为，嘴皮子非常利索的岸边满总是能够将它们正当化。任何想要从品行上对岸边满进行攻击的人，最终都会被他的歪理辩驳的哑口无言。
曾经，岸边满也是一位充满了干劲和理想的有为青年，热爱咖啡文化的他在大学毕业后曾经尝试过经营咖啡店，却赔得连底裤都不剩，从此一蹶不振，彻底告别职场。岸边满有一个姐姐名叫绫子（小池荣子 饰），因为家里房屋改造，绫子带着丈夫（安田显 饰）和女儿春海（清原果耶 饰）暂时借住在母亲家里。

1996年夏，年仅7岁的女孩深见亚季被14岁少年三崎文哉杀害，这起震惊全社会的“三日月湖事件”导致了当事人双方家庭的悲剧。15年后，亚季的哥哥洋贵（瑛太 饰）和父亲达彦（柄本明 饰）在一个偏僻角落经营着钓鱼场。达彦念念不忘女儿的惨剧，他得知文哉8年前即已出狱，种种迹象表明当年的“少年A”根本没有悔改的意图。达彦绝症缠身，抱憾而终，洋贵则接受了向当年的好友文哉复仇的嘱托。就在此时，一个面带惶恐与失落的女孩造访洋贵，她是文哉的妹妹双叶（満島ひかり 饰），多年来和家人背负着加害者的恶名历经无数磨难。
命运将本应对立的两个男女拴在了一起，他们将和各自的家人共同面对这残酷的过去与现在……

2018 film directed by Yōji Yamada

2016 Hong Kong film

2004 film directed by Kang Je-gyu

Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.

2008 film by Hirokazu Koreeda

Follows the lives of two couples who live in the same neighborhood. Kim Man-Suk delivers milk on a motorbike at dawn. He curses a lot, but actually has a warm heart. One day when he goes up a slope, he meets Ms. Song - a lonely woman who works hards by collecting and selling scrap paper. Man-Suk feels something special toward Ms. Song. Jang Kun-Bong works in a parking lot. Jang Kun-Bong has a wife who suffers from Alzheimer's. He works from dawn until late at night. After work he comes home and takes care of his wife.

2011 film directed by Stephen Daldry

A story centered around a divorced couple living in a southern Chinese city Shenzhen and dealing with the disappearance of their missing son.