Azuma Morisaki

Twenty years after leaving the small town of Shibamata, Tora-san returns home and is reunited with his younger sister Sakura, who has been raised there by their aunt and uncle. Sakura is now a beautiful young woman with many suitors. When Hiroshi, a neighborhood factory worker, vows to win Sakura over, Tora-san stirs the pot with clumsy schemes that backfire into disaster.

Young factory worker Manabu (Kawarazaki) falls for pretty college girl Ai (Baisho). One day he gives her a book of poetry by Goethe. A few days later he finds his older brother with the book. That sets off his suspicions about Ai, which ultimately affects his family.

Tora-San, an eccentric and resourceful tramp, is always cheerful. Although he is an orphan, he decides to go back home after a long absence. He thus sees again his sister Sakura Suwa, who has bloomed into a pretty young lady. After a while, Tora-San agrees to go with her to an interview with the family of one of her suitors. But that is without counting Tora-San's terrible clumsiness. His cheeky humor, for instance, is not fully appreciated by the family.

A survival thriller where people battle the elements and each other while trying survive (The Movie Database)

Yuuichi Okano is a baby boomer born and raised in Nagasaki, Japan. His Mother, Mitsue has dementia that began soon after her husband, Satoru, passed away 10 years ago.

In a small harbor village on a quiet Japanese island in the Inland Sea, Haruko is a young woman who raises her two younger sisters alongside some of the more colorful members of the local community, such as the doctor, the ferryman, the local shop owner, and the shop owner's son who happens to be Haruko's boyfriend. One day, the shop owner's son decides to leave the island in search of work and his destiny in Brazil, but if he leaves, where does that leave Haruko? Her future is now uncertain.

Time and Tide is a love story about a relationship that begins when a woman named Mayumi visits an antique shop run by a man named Yasu-san. (imdb)