Mariko Okada

Yemek ve yemek fetişizmi üzerine eğlenceli bir film olan 'Tampopo'da içiçe geçmiş çok karakterli pek çok öykü anlatılıyor. Tampopo kendi restoranında özensiz ‘Ramen’ pişirip durmaktadır. Goro ve arkadaşı ise yol üstünde karınlarını doyurmaya gelmişlerdir fakat kendilerini Tampopo’ya aşçılıkta ustalaşmakta yardım ederken bulurlar. Sadece lezzetli Ramen pişirmenin püf noktalarını öğrenmek değil, alakalı alakasız ‘an’larla kafanızı karıştıracak veya güldürecek sade bir hikayenin sıradan olması gerekmediğini hatırlamak da gayet güzeldir. Yaptıklarınızın sürekli sıradan, hatta ortalamanın altında kalması inanılmaz can sıkıcıdır.

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

Miyamoto Musashi, mütevazı ve basit bir hayat yaşamak için her şeyden uzaklaşarak bir köye taşınmıştır. Savaştan uzak bu köyde huzur dolu bir yaşamı tercih eder. Köye yerleşmesinin ardından, köylülere haydutlara karşı savunma sanatlarını öğretmeye başlamıştır. Bu sıralarda da, Musashi'nin izini süren, Musashi'ye deli gibi aşık olan Otsu köye gelir. Tabi o köyde olduğunu söyleyen de Sasaki Kojiro'dur. Söylemesinin sebebide, Musashi'yi zayıf düşürmektir. Ve Musashi'nin can düşmanı Sasaki Kojiro'da ardından köye ayak basacaktır. Ve aralarında verdikleri bir yıl sonra ki dövüş sözüde yerine gelecektir. Düello bir adada yapılarak, hem en önemli hem de kazananın önemli olmadığı bu mücadele sonunda başlar.

Serinin ilk bölümünde; Miyatomo köyünden Takezo, gençliğinin en deli-dolu döneminde arkadaşı Matahachi ile birlikte büyük bir samuray olabilmek için evinden ayrılmıştı. Takezo, Musashi ünvanını aldı ve kılıç kullanmada büyük bir usta oldu. Kendisinin yol göstericisi olan Rahip Takuan tarafından. bilgi ve görgüsünü arttırmak, saygıdeğer bir samuray olmak, ustalığını daha da ileri düzeye taşımak ve kişiliğini tamamlamak için bir yolculuğa gönderilmişti… Bu bölümde ise, Yoshioka kılıç okulu ile bu okulun entrikaları ile uğraştığı, çırağı jotaro ve en önemli rakiplerinden biri olan kojiro sasaki ile tanışması anlatılır. Ölümsüz aşkı otsu ile bir yuva kurmak ister ama kadın mı kılıç mı seçimini bir kez daha yapar ve yine kılıcını seçer…

Efsanevi savaşçı Miyamoto Musashi hayatının erken döneminde gözü yükseklerde olan bir hayduttur. Film, bir kanun kaçağı ve sonunda onun gerçek bir samuray oluşunu anlatıyor.

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.

A sequel to Geisha Konatsu (1954).

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby that’s controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.

This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece bijinga ("picture of a beautiful woman") that Uemura painted at the age of 61. The main character, Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school and at age 15 receives the name Shōsui (from the characters for "pine" and "green") from her teacher. The crown prince of England purchases one of her works, propelling her to fame overnight. The novel portrays the remainder of her stormy life, during which she is impregnated by her teacher and raises a fatherless child; through it all she devotes herself to her painting, undaunted.

In the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death of their master Asano Takumi-no-kami. Shogun Tsunayoshi, who ruled at that time, experienced difficulties in what punishment to impose on the soldiers. As a result, it was decided to sentence them to seppuku (ritual suicide).

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portrays the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

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 gets in trouble.

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.

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.

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the owner of "Fujimura" in the town of Hato. Eiko is a timid woman who hates Terada, a watchmaker who is obsessed with her; Tamie is a hard worker who asks for money from customers to support her mother and daughter Teruko; Tane, who dreams of the day they can be together, gives money to her lover Takeda; Machiko, an apres girl, is selective about her customers in the name of romance. They are women working in the red light district at "Fujimura."

The Story is about three daughters of a "Hatamoto" during the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration.