Nobuyuki Isshiki

Film parodies a family putting their 6-year old through rigorous exams and IQ tests to enter a better than average elementary school. It also looks at the midlife crisis of the husband and touches on role reversal in the family as the father becomes the homemaker and the mother goes out selling tombstones.

Love's sweet sorrow forms the dramatic storyline for this mystery drama. A free-spirited young woman, Yukari, touches those around her with a zest for life, full of passion. Following her unexplained suicide, her envious younger sister, Reiko, and naive fiancé, Yoshio, form an unlikely alliance with the last person to see her alive, playboy- entertainer Hajime. The 3 unlikely comrades must join forces to discover the circumstances surrounding Yukari's sudden death. (mydramalist)

Comedy about a family and their obsession for making money.

Yamada ga machi ni yatte kita (aka How to Speak Japanese)

When a hard-driving copywriter discovers his comely wife (Keiko Saito) is involved in a scintillating game of strip rock-paper-scissors with some guy clad only in a pair of boxer shorts and Mickey Mouse ears, he is less than happy. When the stranger tries to make a run for it, a fight ensues between the two men, and they accidentally tumble down several flights of a concrete stairwell. One hurried ambulance ride later, the copywriter finds himself in a private teaching hospital equipped...

A comedy about a young woman who has terminal cancer.