After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply…

August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

A teacher at a Japanese school tries to hide his outcast upbringing.

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

A middle-aged man’s family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims’ families.

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she’s seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their…

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.