Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.

1962 film by Hiroshi Teshigahara

1969 film by Hideo Gosha

Two newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to design it. Unfortunately, Yanagisawa isn’t licensed to build homes, so they call in the wife’s father, a retired carpenter, to help out. When Yanagisawa’s contemporary ideas clash with the old carpenter’s traditional Japanese methods, the project becomes a huge mess.

There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He has his son and daughter in tow and works hard for them. The folk moxia.cc in the area try to help. A couple of years pass and the older son moves back to Tokyo, attends school and works part-time. The daughter commutes to the city to attend school. She wants to become a nurse. To become a registered nurse she needs to study a further three years. This takes money.

因妻子外遇而离婚的黑板五郎，带着一对儿女从东京来到充满田园风光的北海道富良野生活。影片细腻地描写他们在北方富良野的田园生活和爱情，以及从学校走入社会工作，成家立业，生儿育女。剧中人物尽管有各种不如意的生活经历和自己无法掌控的现实，但他们最终都能战胜所面临的逆境，更加理解身边的人和事。

亮（吉冈秀隆饰）与家里的父亲发生了冲突，离家旅行到一个小镇，遇到了一家影院的经理活男（西田敏行饰），并留了下来工作，在影院工作的还有放映师常先生（田中邦卫饰），并认识了开咖啡店的八重子（田中裕子饰）。活男一直喜欢八重子，可惜后来终未能如愿，八重子离开了小镇。

U.F.O. Blue Christmas

距离草太（岩城滉一）的意外去世已经过去了四年。由于接手了草太的农场并债台高筑，純（吉岡秀隆）和正吉（中沢佳仁）离开了富良野。 螢（中嶋朋子）和她的3岁儿子快（西村成忠）继续生活在富良野。对于五郎（田中邦衛）来说，孙子快是他唯一的生活动力。有一天，和夫的女儿すみえ（中島ひろ子）回到了他的身边，宣布自己已经决定结婚，而且已经怀孕。すみえ的未婚夫清水正彦（柳葉敏郎）被五郎为雪子建的房子所感动，请求五郎为他们建造新房子，于是五郎着手开始新房子的建造。与此同时，純收到了久违的来信，来信是由シュウ（宮沢りえ）送来的，她告诉五郎她即将结婚并搬到神户去，她还留下了封给純的信。与此同时，五郎的下腹部突然剧痛，他决定接受一直受到螢不断催促的详细检查。純在一个叫做羅臼的渔村接收到了来自シュウ的信。純在经营废物处理生意的同时，遇到了一名便利店店员高村結（内田有紀），并逐渐被她吸引。但不久之后，純得知結是已婚妇女，而她的岳父吾平（唐十郎）被人们称作"トド"（意为"海豹"，意指脾气火爆的人）。 有一天，螢在医院看到了みずえ（清水まゆみ）的身影。然后，当和夫送走みずえ返回医院停车场时，他的手微微颤抖…。

A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salaryman with whom she begins a furtive romance...

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.

日本连续剧《北国之恋》以温情慈爱的笔触，描写家庭亲情之爱，人性之爱。离了婚的父亲带着一对儿女从东京来到充满田园风光的日本北方小岛生活。影片细腻地描写他们从学校走入社会工作，成家立业，生儿育女。剧中人物尽管有着各种不如意的生活经历和自己无法掌控的现实，但他们最终都能战胜所面临的逆境，更加理解身边的人和事。 该剧首批81年在日本播出后，便成为家喻户晓的剧目。87年至2002年，又每年一次地用同班创作人员和演员，演出新的剧集。这种近乎纪录片的手法，也是它获得25-30%收视率的原因之一。 《北国之恋》被赞誉为“高尚精美的人性戏剧”，在日本多次获奖，该剧剧本还被选为日本高中语言教材，其拍摄地点日本北方小岛后也成为热心观众争相游览的旅游景点。

Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal fishing town where he's become an honest fisherman.

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

1976 Japanese film directed by Junya Satō

本片榮獲藝學院賞最佳電影、最佳劇本、最佳男主角（西田敏行）最佳助演男配角（田中邦衛）最佳新人（萩原聖人、裕木奈江）暨最佳導演六項大獎！！ 《學校》是山田洋次構思了15年的意念。影片的背景是一所夜間中學，負責教學的是已屆中年的黑井先生。 他本來可以有機會調職到另一家正規學校任教，但他卻拒絕了。又一個學期要過去，在畢業禮即將來臨之前，黑井叫每個學生都以過去一年的日子做題材，寫下一些值得回味的事情。班上的同學，有不同年齡的、不同國藉和背景的，不約而同都發現：歲月雖然匆匆，但箇中悲喜，尤其是黑井的關懷，卻教他們永誌難忘。 本片是山田洋次創作生涯上的另一高峰：七年間已拍了四集，是山田繼《男人之苦》後的第二個成功系列。 Directed by the creator of the Tora-san series, Yamada Yoji, "A Class to Remember" unfolds in a night junior high school on the lower east side of Tokyo. Students from their teens to their sixties are enrolled. One of the most beloved teachers, Kuroi, asks each student to write an essay recalling their experience in the night school. In the midst of the class, a piece of tragic news arrives: Inoda, one of Kuroi's students, has passed away, upon which the whole class starts talking about each other's memory of Inoda. Compassionate and extremely poignant, "A Class to Remember", marks the beginning of another film series for Yamada. So far four installments have been made and all are box office hits.