The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.

《曾根崎心中》（1703）是净琉璃史上第一部现实剧（世话物），也是日本最早的社会故事剧，引起了很大轰动。这第一部净琉璃中的现代情死剧，它所反映的不仅是当时的一种社会悲剧，而且还有新兴町人阶级的道德观和日本的传统文化观念。《曾根崎心中》改编自元禄16年（1703年）旧历四月七日早上，大阪堂岛新地天满屋的游女初（はつ）（21岁）与内本町酱油商平野屋的店员德兵卫（徳兵卫）（25岁）在梅田曾根崎的露天神森林中殉情一事。

Having botched his entrance exams to a prestigious university, the dim-witted but earnest Hikoichi Otsu (Fujio) refuses to swallow his pride by doing the decent thing and admitting his failure to his mother back home in the country. His plight is made more desperate by a recently opened department store in his hometown threatening to engulf the family business and his father's dying words that without a degree one has no future in a rapidly modernising Japan. Not wanting to lose face, he just puts on his uniform anyway and turns up to his literature classes as if he were a bona-fide freshman. He looks sure to get away with his charade too, until a chance encounter with the leader of a group of student radicals named Soratani (Itami) throws him way out of his depth.

1977 film by Yasuharu Hasebe

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive events. Highlights include an epic pole-vaulting match between West Germany and America, and the final marathon race through Tokyo's streets. Two athletes are highlighted: Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, who receives his second gold medal, and runner Ahamed Isa from Chad, representing a country younger than he is.

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies.