
Yuriko Hoshi (星由里子 Hoshi Yuriko) was a Japanese actress. As one of Toho's young stars in the 1960's, she played reporters in the Godzilla films Godzilla vs. Mothra and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, as well as Yuichi Tanuma's girlfriend in the Young Guy series. Hoshi passed away from lung cancer on May 16, 2018, at the age of 74.
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Masaru and Yukiko have been married 44 years. They have three children who live independently from them. Masaru and Yukiko enjoy their peaceful days, but, one day, Yukiko tells her daughter Naoko that she wants to divorce Masaru.

On the eve of her latest fashion showcase in Beijing, successful entrepreneur Yuan Yuan is approached by Keiko, a mysterious young Japanese woman. An admirer of Yuan Yuan’s career, Keiko has learned Mandarin and fashion design for a chance to speak with her idol. As Yuan Yuan takes Keiko under her wing, long suppressed memories begin to surface of her time in Hokkaido and the husband she’d left behind.

Childhood best friends. Cousins. Housemates. Coworkers. Eight stories of unrequited love, eight sets of people who weren't meant to be together. Several short films put together under the common theme of One Sided Love: ***My Nickname is Butatchi ***Something Blue ***Asahan no Yuge ***Kataomoi Supairaru ***Usotsuki no Koi ***Ibu no Okurimono ***Radio Personality ***Boku no Sabotin

A drama in which Yasuko Sawaguchi starred in the movie for the first time in nine years since "Autumn Autumn" and played an elementary school teacher who loves children. Tomoyo Miki became a third-grade class teacher at the transferred elementary school. Children with a variety of circumstances, such as children with a "situation mood disorder" that cannot speak at all at school, and children with a lot of troubled behaviors who have a poor life due to the debt of their divorced mother and father. Tomoyo, in cooperation with his classmates and parents, face each other with all his might. The original is a novel of the same name by Fumiko Shibakaki who has experience as a primary school teacher. Sawaguchi plays the role of Tomoyo Miki, a female teacher of the main character, and Yuhiro Murata, Kumiko Endo, Yuriko Hoshi and others set aside.

A young man transported back to the colorful chaos of old Tokyo witnesses firsthand the larger-than-life dreamers who turned a stretch of carnival stalls into Japan's greatest entertainment district.

Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.

8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly, on her own. Shimpei's childhood sweetheart, Sayuri, is deaf, but somehow they can understand each other and they always spend time together.

Izumi aims to be the first deaf creator of artificial limbs. One day, her senior co-worker, Kubo, goes to Afghanistan to help give aid to children as a member of an NGO. Izumi decides to go along. In Kabul, the wounds of war are still fresh and Izumi meets a girl named Parizatt who has lost a leg to a mine.

In an alternate timeline the original Godzilla is never defeated and repeatedly reemerges to feed on Japan's energy sources. A new inter-dimensional weapon called the Dimension Tide is created with the intent of eliminating Godzilla. However, the new weapon might also serve as a gateway to something far more sinister.

In postwar Japan, a quiet housewife and an aging poet fall into a scandalous love that costs them everything — family, reputation, and comfort — yet neither is willing to let go.
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