A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers…

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to…