The Kidnap Blues (1982)
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins
Sing a Song of Sex (1967)
Four high school students preparing for their university entrance exam fantasize about a classmate, and meet up with their inebriated teacher, while singing bawdy drinking songs
Tampopo (1985)
A truck driver stops at a small family run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food
The Funeral (1984)
At the beginning of the film the father in law of the protagonist dies unexpectedly of a heart attack The remainder of the film is episodic, moving from one incident to another over the course of the three day funeral, which is held
Do re mi fa musume no chi wa sawagu (1985)
A country girl visits Tokyo in search of her college heartthrob Here she meets horny students, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame, and Yoshioka who has become a campus nobody
A Taxing Woman (1987)
If tax evasion is an art, wheeler dealer Hideki Gondo is Rembrandt And so, a determined taxing woman gets the tough assignment of trying to catch him
Shizukana seikatsu (1995)
Melodrama about the life of a mentally handicapped young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip
Minbo (1992)
A luxury hotel extorted by yakusa assigns an ordinary accountant to handle the situation The chaotic results cause the hotel to rethink its plan
Supermarket Woman (1996)
Goros supermarket is not doing well the rival Bargains Galore threatens his business A chance encounter with Hanako, an energetic woman he knew in grade school, results in big retail and life changes
Ageman (1990)
Her childhood was hardly ideal as she was abandoned and grew up without parental love She finds a home and a profession as a geisha who is particularly popular because she has that lucky bone in her that transmits fortune to her
I Am a Cat (1975)
The cat of the title roams around the house of a poor schoolteacher in the late 19th century, observing the goings on of the teacher and his neighbors
The Family Game (1983)
Japanese parents hire a tutor for their foolish son and get a critic of their lifestyle