Both are based on fictions by Shuhei Fujisawa.

A 19th Century samurai, held in low esteem due to an action by his late father, must resolve his history with a maid and with his close friend.

Adaptation of Osamu Dazai novel "Pandora's box" (1945). Inspired by events from Dazai’s own life, the story centres around a young man at the end of the second world war who has been suffering from tuberculosis for some time but kept quiet about it expecting to die soon and remove the burden on his family. However, when the war finally ends Risuke inherits a new will to live and commits himself to a sanatorium to treat his lung condition. Whilst in the hospital he comes into contact with writers and poets as well as pretty nurses all the while proceeding with his plan to become a “new man” for this “new era”.

Adaptation of the novel "The setting sun" (947) by Osamu Dazai. It is set in Japan after World War II. The story shows a family in decline and crisis, like many other families during this period of transition between traditional Japan and a more advanced, industrial society.

Based on one of the best known works of Japanese literary giant Osamu Dazai "No Longer Human", was the last in a series of commemorative film projects marking the 100th anniversary of the author’s birth in 2009. "No Longer Human" is semi-autobiographical, fixated on the idea of suicide, and charts the course of its protagonist as he becomes hopelessly lost in a life of dissipation, alcohol, drugs, and overwhelming depression.

Osamu Dazai's literary work "No Longer Human" has received quite a few adaptations. This film is about the women in his life. In fact, the Japanese subtitle for Ninagawa’s film is ‘Osamu Dazai and three women.’

Both are about biographical films about the wife of famous artists. In Villon's wife is a writer and in Tokyo Biyori is Nobuyoshi Araki, Japan's leading photographer.

The story of two young hustlers, Tatsuro and Shin, and her two female friends. Everything seems to work, until the day Shin declares he's in love with Tatsuro

2 guys who are gay, one female who is lonely for someone to love. The woman approaches 1 of the guys and wants him to seed her would be child.

Both films are about Japanese ‘geek’ and his borderline obsessive/compulsive hobbies. The Mamiya Brothers are nerds, The male lead from "Train Man" is an otaku.

Lee Jung-In is a librarian who has been in a 4 year relationship with a banker Kwon Gi-Seok. Yoo Ji-ho is a Pharmacist and single dad who graduated a year behind Kwon Gi-Seok from the same University. After a chance meeting at his pharmacy, Ji-ho and Lee Jung-In start seeing love and relationships in a new light. Lee Jung-In meets Yoo Ji-Ho at the pharmacy when she goes there to remedy her hangover.

The influence of the kabuki theater in Japanese cinema has been fairly marginal, the assumption being that kabuki modes of acting and staging are generally unsuited to the cinema. Both films reproduces forms of kabuki as a central dramatic device. Oshima’s Diary of a Shinjuku Thief reproduces a primitive form of kabuki while Shinoda’s approach is more traditional.

Air Doll is based on the Japanese manga The Pneumatic Figure of a Girl and tells the story of a life-size inflatable doll used as a sex object for a lonely waiter who finds a heart and becomes a real person.