Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.

A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the gold rush in Alaska. But he does not forget them.

Tokyo Olympiad director Kon Ichikawa documents the 50th anniversary of the Koshien games.

In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, dreams are instilled into the lives of many across Japan. A vigorous young man with a look of fearless determination, sets foot on the northern part of Kyushu, an area where Yakuza thrived. His name is Kingoro Tamai (Yujiro Ishihara). With plans to travel the world, Kingoro worked diligently at a coal mine. His loyalty and hard work earned the respect of his peers, his courage won the heart of the beautiful Mon (Ruriko Asaoka), and his success evoked jealousy in his enemies.

Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between the Okagen Group and the rising Hashiden Gang. Now with the mediation/interference of the Americans, they decide to settle it in a peaceful, *democratic* way, that is, to settle it with a baseball game. Now, with its money and power, The Hashiden group soon recruits a group of gamblers known to be good at baseball from the whole country. So, what is the Okagen Gumi gonna do?

ある寒い夜明け、徳島市の山田ラジオ店主人徳三が、全身九ヵ所の刺傷を受けて殺害された。警察の捜査を半ばにして、検察庁の手に渡った事件は、急転直下検察の内部説にとって変り、妻の洋子を犯人として逮捕した。市の地方裁判所は洋子に対して十三年の判決を下した。洋子は直ちに控訴したが、第二審裁判でも一審通りの判決となり、検察側の告訴は勝った。洋子は、最高裁に上告手続きをとったが、身柄は和歌山刑務所に送られた。ところがある日へ洋子は独断で上告をとり下げた。裁判が長びけば、金がかかるばかりで結論も判っている。服役を終えて自分で犯人を探す以外にないと思ったのだ。この処置に佐藤弁護士も親戚も愕然とした。その頃、富士山麓の警察署に、四年前のラジオ商殺しの犯人だと自首した男がいた。洋子の義理の甥にあたる瀬戸物商流二は、洋子の気持を理解しながらも、真犯人らしき者の現われた今、その処置に口惜さをおさえきれず、刑務所に訪ねては、事件の核心をさぐり、裁判のやり直しに積極的に動くことを決意した。洋子の有罪の動機は当時山田家に勤める二少年の証言であった。流二は二少年を追及して、漸く、二少年の検察官への供述も法廷の証言も、嘘であることを握った。新しく弁護を依頼された今井と流二の動きを察知した検察側も、二少年に証言を翻させない挙にでると共に、流二に対しては威嚇、供応、買収の疑いで調査を開始した。板ばさみになった少年も、流二も精魂つきはてそうになった頃、国会の法務委員会で問題となり日弁連の現地調査にもとずき、検察審査会が二少年の証言に偽証の疑いがあることを勧告した。流二も少年も孤立から救われた。だが、裁判やり直しには、まだけわしい道がひかえている。

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.

Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.

Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible spasms. The doctor checks on her and arrives at the conclusion that she has tetanus. Her parents have to bear the sufferings of their child. The once peaceful family has changed completely.

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

1980 film directed by Akira Kurosawa

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.

1992 film by Hideo Gosha