What A Wonderful Family!

7.4

In his fiftieth year of marriage to Tomiko, Shuzo decides to buy her a birthday present for a change. However, she tells him she wants his seal on an application for divorce. Their children swiftly convene a family…

Family Story

7.2

Takuya Kobayashi is a university student in Tokyo. He receives his living expenses from his parents who run an apple farm in their hometown. Takuya Kobayashi becomes frustrated and he does not know what to do. He focuses…

The Family Complete

6.3

Set largely in a traditional Japanese house, The Family Complete dramatizes the fate of three generations of the Kanba family, a fate sealed on the day when Grandpa is raped by Kuma, the family’s pet man-in-a-cat-suit.…

Going the Distance

Asahi, who hails from the remote Goto Islands, earns his living as a boxing trainer at a gym in Tokyo and is planning to marry Kaori soon. Asahi invites his childhood friend Hiroto to Tokyo and finds a job for him.…

Household X

1.0

Michiko Hashimoto, a quiet, lonely mother who spends all her time obsessively keeping her house in order even though her actual family is quietly falling apart around her.

Family Meeting

Shigezumi is a young stock broker from Tokyo. He is in love with young Taiko who lives in Osaka. The marriage seems impossible as Shigezumi had a difficult relationship to Taiko' father who bankrupted and drove Shigezumi's…

Where Spring Comes Late

7.4

The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his…

Ramen Shop

7.4

Masato is a young ramen chef in the city of Takasaki in Japan. After the sudden death of his emotionally distant father, he chances upon a suitcase of memorabilia and a red notebook—filled with musings and old photos—left…

The Crazy Family

7.4

The Kobayashi family finally get the chance to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment in favour of the suburban house of their dreams. But all is not well: the house is infested by termites and the family…

My Family

8.3

Between grief, school woes and family chaos, self-conscious teen and budding writer Nanami copes the only way she knows — with laughter and tears. (Source: Netflix) ~~ Adapted from the autobiographical essay "Kazoku…

Hasegawa Hanon

Isamu Shizuka

Actress.

Matsuzaki Hiroomi

Mukoda Kuniko

Screenwriter and Essayist.

Fuchino Yoko

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Nakajima Hiromi

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Kobayashi Satomi

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Inoue Yumiko

Ito Shiro

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Nara Fujiko

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