Makoto Kobori

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Haha chidori

Due to obligation, they parted ways, but mother and child meet again in front of the father's grave.

Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

Ōshima jōwa

The Road of Love

Hana no sando gasa

Affair Trip

Based on the story "Uwaki no tabi" ("Affair Journey") by Keita Genji.

Marital Relations

​Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named Choko. This betrayal leads his father to disown him, leaving the unskilled Ryukichi with no way to earn a living. To keep them afloat, Choko is forced to continue working as a geisha while secretly scraping together a nest egg to start their own business. However, Ryukichi remains trapped in his hedonistic lifestyle, eventually squandering Choko’s hard-earned savings on his own self-indulgence.

Hakata Dontaku

Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

While the Demon Steps Out

Fire Department

Tomorrow's Happiness

Furisode kyōjo

A handsome man and a beautiful woman who seek to restore the Toyotomi clan by taking in the orphaned Princess Tsuru.

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree