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- DirectorYûzô KawashimaStarsSô YamamuraTatsuya MihashiIsuzu YamadaJozaburo Araki is the head of a famous family-owned wholesale pharmaceutical store with a well-established history. At present he is the Minister of Health and Welfare, and is considering submission of a Bill to hold population increase in check, in an attempt to easily deal with Opposition accusations regarding the population problem. However, just when he is in the Diet giving a major policy speech to the Welfare Ministry Committee about decreasing the population, Ranko, his 48-year-old wife, heads to a maternity clinic and discovers that she is pregnant. To make matters worse, he finds out that his eldest son, Jotaro, had been secretly having an affair with his own secretary, Saeko Godai, and it seems that she is also expecting a little 'Burden of Love.' Also, the Araki family's young daughter, Sakura, has become pregnant with her fiancé before their upcoming marriage, and even the retired patron of the family, Jozo, 2 presents yet another possibility of a pregnancy with his much younger mistress. Furthermore, Jozaburo visits Kyoto on an election campaign and is astounded to learn of the existence of his own love-child with his former lover, Some Kaida! As if that's not enough trouble, the Araki family finds that even their maid, Oteru, and their business manager, Yamaguchi, have somehow also ended up with their own 'Burden of Love.' And that is how the population explosion in the household of the Minister of Health and Welfare somehow becomes a factor in the future of Japan...
- DirectorKajirô YamamotoStarsSanzô AkaozekiYû FujikiSusumu Fujita
- DirectorMasahiro MakinoStarsUreo EgawaAkio KoboriYukiko Shimazaki
- DirectorToshimasa HozumiStarsKeiko AwajiJunzaburô BanKiyo Fujii
- DirectorSeiji MaruyamaStarsAkira KuboMariko OkadaShinji Yamada
- DirectorYûzô KawashimaStarsSô YamamuraYumeji TsukiokaTatsuya MihashiSonejiro sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo's father is introduced to Sonejiro, good will turns evil, and all happiness is at stake.
- DirectorHiromichi HorikawaStarsAkira KuboIsao KimuraYoshiko Kuga
- DirectorYasuki ChibaStarsKen UeharaNaoko KuboMiyuki Ueda
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsTomisaburô WakayamaIsuzu YamadaHisaya MorishigeChutaro of Banba is a lone yakuza searching for the mother who abandoned him when he was five. During his travels, he is pursued by the henchmen of a yakuza boss whom he'd attacked.
- StarsKinnosuke Nakamura
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsKeiko KishiKeiji SadaWei Hong
- DirectorKinuyo TanakaStarsYumeji TsukiokaRyôji HayamaJunkichi OrimotoFumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a poetess. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and the development of a serious illness: a breast cancer, which leads her to lose her breasts. In the last stage of her life she meets a young journalist arrived from Tokyo, an admirer of her work, who want to write a story on her life. Both live a secret love history.
- DirectorTomu UchidaStarsChiezô KataokaRyûnosuke TsukigataChizuru KitagawaA samurai travels to Edo with his two servants. On their way, they meet many people and encounter great injustice.