Yasutake Shingo is a newspaper reporter whose only redeeming feature is his earnestness. He meets Matsunaga Chie, who attends a music college, and they start dating. Each day becomes all the more bright and enjoyable for Shingo because of the lively Chie. She loves to laugh, sing and eat. After one and a half years, Chie is employed as a music teacher. One day, Shingo is informed that Chie has breast cancer. After thinking about it, he decides to share a lifetime with her and proposes. His proposal gives her the courage to undergo surgery which she had been mulling over. One day, Chie starts to teach 5-year-old Hana the “important things in life” such as laundry, cleaning and cooking. She thinks that even if she is no longer around, her daughter and husband will be able to live.

〔陣内・原田両家篇〕売れない役者ラスプーチン竹内こと竹内尚也のもとに、花村華子というお嫁さん候補ナンバーワンの女優が訪れ結婚を申し込む。事務所の勧めもあり自分の人気上昇を願って尚也は婚約に同意。だが実はこれは花村と人気男優・井上との不倫を隠すための偽装結婚計画だった。事実を知った尚也は婚約を破棄しようとするが後の祭り。だが結婚式当日、姿を見せない華子の代わりに、ずっと以前から尚也に想いを寄せていた高校時代の後輩・岩下舞が代役としてやって来る。尚也は彼女との間に真実の愛を見つけるが、この先尻にしかれそうな様子。 ［佐藤・名取両家篇］北海道のさびしい港町で古い映画館をきりもりする朝子は、高校の時の恋人・谷口のことを忘れられず一人きりでいた。そんな彼女を見守る隣家に住む漁師の裕一は、女房に逃げられ息子の裕次郎と二人暮らし。ある日朝子は十年ぶりに町へ戻ってきた谷口と会うが、長い歳月は谷口の心を変えており朝子の“待ち恋”は幕を閉じる。彼女は赤字経営で苦しい映画館を閉じ町を去ることを決意するが、映画館最後の日、裕一がスクリーンの前に立ちはだかり映写室の朝子に向かって愛を告白する。次の日、裕次郎を連れて海岸を散歩する二人の姿があった。 ［中井・鷲尾両家篇］宝石商を営む青年実業家・天童雅彦は、遺産問題も含め結婚を急かされていたが、仕事先のオーストラリアで芦屋の令嬢だという柳田絵里に出会い、一目で惹かれる。絵里もまた雅彦に好印象を持つが、実は令嬢というのは真っ赤な“の普通のＯＬであり、”がバレないようにと姿を消す。雅彦は全てを知った上で彼女との結婚を決意するが、彼が自分の心を弄んでいるのではと思った絵里は同僚の中岡との結婚を考えた。だが目の前に雅彦の乗ったヘリコプターが現れ、彼女は雅彦の腕に抱かれた。二人は絵里の憧れだったオーストラリア・ハミルトン島で結婚式を挙げるのだった。

1993年、テレビ朝日、原作『眠りの森』

The Futurians, time-travelers from the 23rd century, arrive in Japan to warn them of the nation's destruction under Godzilla. They offer to help erase Godzilla from history by preventing his creation. With Godzilla seemingly gone, a new monster emerges as the Futurians' true intentions are revealed.

A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for consultation...

A lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apartment in a country town. There he forms a relationship with a neglected little neighborhood girl.

Laid-back baby boomer Yuichi (Ryo Iwamatsu) is a middle-aged manga artist and singer-songwriter when he isn't at his salaryman day job or watching out for his elderly mother. Suffering from increasing dementia since her husband's death, Mitsue (Harue Akagi) is a constant source of comic energy or annoyance for Yuichi, and he and his son must soon decide if they should put her in a home for the elderly. Jumping back in time, we see how Mitsue (played by Kiwako Harada) tracked the tumult of the latter half of the 20th century, being raised as one of 10 brothers and sisters, surviving the war, and having to push her alcoholic husband (Ryo Kase) along in life. "Pecoross" is directed by the oldest active film director in Japan, Azuma Morisaki, who creates an emotionally complex work that is only the more profound and life-affirming for its cartoonish portrayal.

千惠（广末凉子 饰）和脸热安武信吾（泷藤贤一 饰）交往多年，正当他们准备携手步入婚姻殿堂之时，千惠却被确诊患上了乳腺癌，然而，信吾依旧选择了向千惠求婚。婚后，千惠开始积极的接受治疗，在化疗的副作用的折磨之下，夫妻两人依然保持着对生活积极而又乐观的态度，一度，千惠的病情得到了控制。
然而，让千惠和信吾没有想到的是，千惠的腹中竟然进驻了一个小小的生命，若想保住这个孩子，那么千惠将不能够再使用药物，这也就意味着，千惠的癌症有很大的可能复发。坚强的千惠决定生下孩子，十个月后，小花呱呱坠地。果不其然，千惠的癌症复发了，面对死神渐渐逼近的脚步，千惠决定给丈夫和孩子留下最宝贵的遗产。

After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy Ko begins to fear that she is destined to crash. Shéa Le Poidevin and Rafi James star in Obayashi's magnum opus.