Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

A suicidal tuba player hires a hit-man to rub him out. The next day he falls in love.

What is March 8th? It's spring, the sun, tulips, mom's smile and the anticipation of falling in love and happiness. There is also a fuss, congratulations, queues in shops, flowers and an endless race for gifts. Every year, on this day, there is a global collapse in which everything is dedicated to women. The most ordinary people who face extraordinary situations, and unplanned meetings radically change their lives.

Chris Serle looks at television's past.

One Windmill girl tells the tragic history of another who took to drink and, finally, killed herself after working in strip clubs.

A Mexican telenovela directed by Antulio Jiménez Pons for Canal de las Estrellas in 1978.

The German adopted-daughter of a Belgian innkeeper is threatened with internment by him if she reveals to the British billetees that he is a spy. However, she is in love with one of them and helps them.

In the last years of the Ottoman Empire, a poor little Anatolian town named Saripinar is hit by a minor earthquake which has neither destroyed nor left it with many casualties. However, a telegraph sent to the central government exaggerates the situation and mentions that the governor of the town has been severely wounded, making the event a nationwide matter.

The 7th Toho Cinderella Audition New Generation Award winner, Minami Hamabe starring director Takahiro Miki's heartwarming short movie. In front of Fumika, who has the legend that if you write a love letter, you will fall in love ...

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), a young Dutch couple find their idyllic countryside being overrun by unfeeling, unthinking mechanical men and machines that lay waste to everything in their path. In 1997 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.