Yoshie Minami

A businessman facially scarred in a laboratory fire receives psychotherapy from a psychiatrist, and obtains an amazingly lifelike mask from the doctor... (imdb)

A young woman is driven by bitterness and frustration to the promiscuity of her mother against which she had rebelled.

During a long train trip in Japan, a young man tries to talk to an older woman which initially refuses any proximity. After several tries some aspects of her past are unfold and they arrange a meeting.

17-year-old Naomi is one of a million such aimless teenagers, a Shibuya-girl wannabe, bottle blonde and face plastered in orange foundation, mobile phone grafted to her head and her pink lipsticked pout puffing petulantly at a cigarette as her mother gives her a dressing down for skipping school and staying out all night. Fortunately for this bolshie city brat, her mother's methods of parental control are a little less extreme than Fukasaku's. (midnighteye.com)

A young man, Kazuo, joins a new cult religion even though he sees through the initial recruitment pretense, and participating in the activities of a new social phenomenon, some of whose members genuinely believe in the principles and practice as preached, while others have more Machiavellian motives. (imdb)

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and dumb. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys. (Letterboxd)

There is a woman. She has a mother. She does not have a father. Mother wants her daughter married. Mother wants the marriage to be arranged. Mother wants a successful and rich son-in-law. Daughter is uninterested. Daughter recruits a coworker to pretend they are dating. Daughter and coworker have chemistry. Could you guess what follows?

When she wins a small supporting role in a play, a young actress is disappointed, but fate tempts her with another shot at stardom.

Musical featuring three Japanese pop stars of the time, Hibari Misora, Chiemi Eri, and Izumi Yukimura, identified as a trio by the name of "Sannin Musume." Hibari Misora, it should be noted, was the biggest recording star in Japan in the postwar era. The movie's in color and was part of the earliest wave of color movies in Japan.