Fukuura Koharu works at a child welfare office and plunges into despair overnight. Then she meets Daigo, a private-practice doctor raising his 8-year-old daughter on his own. She resolves to build a happy household, but things don't go as expected.
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern war...
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a fr...
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is...
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society su...
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rusti...
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blith...
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young ma...
Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he co...
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no pla...
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute ...
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota wor...
Four women in their thirties reevaluate their relationships, both shared and private, afte...