The Marriag

All the men she has dated while living in Tokyo have been married. Tired of love and life in Tokyo, Koharu Maezono (Haruka Shimazaki) returns to her hometown. There, she learns that her father has fallen ill and the coffee shop Lupin, which her parents run, has been forced to close due to massive debts!

During World War II, a man falls for a woman in Naples, leading to a two-decade affair. When she learns he plans to marry someone else, she schemes to make him marry her, having secretly borne his children.

A pro-gay-marriage Catholic archbishop. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church. High-profile politicians. A former lesbian converting homosexuals to "straightness." Two survivors of 9/11 victims denied marital benefits. And much more... This film delves into the emotion behind the hot-button issue of same-sex marriage. Probing, powerful, and full of humanity -- this movie will change the way you think.

Massachusetts State Representative and Civil Rights Movement veteran Byron Rushing takes the campaign for same sex marriage in to the Black community, with the support of progressive Black clergy and activists. They face the hostility of the church and defining the right of same sex marriage as a civil rights issue on par with the campaigns of the 1960s.

Joon-yeong is a Korean professor of English literature and confirmed bachelor. But when he meets Yeon-hee on a blind date, his days of bachelorhood seem numbered.

Teacher Nano Saikawa hasn't given much thought to marriage, but her father's friend wants her to have a marriage interview with his son, Souichirou Takamiya. After the interview, they spend the day together. As they gradually become more comfortable with one another, Souichirou asks for her hand in marriage. Things quickly heat up between them, and the two wind up in bed together. However, when she removes his glasses, she discovers he is not Souichirou; he is actually one of her problem students, Souji Kuga! Souji's explanation is watertight: when he realized his brother was to be Nano's intended, Souji posed as him in order to be with her. And what's more, he is even confident that his family will approve of their marriage. However, an illicit relationship with a student is the last thing Nano wants. But will she be able to resist his charms, especially when her body begins to ache for his?.

Today, Japan is envied by the world for her economic prosperity, which however, has resulted in producing this sort of average family. Its contains a wife who has to serve her husband, a preoccupied businessman, and who showers all her attention on her child who is also left behind at home with the mother. The child, especially a son, becomes a replacement for her husband. Mother and son share an intimate life like lovers at home without the husband. It seems that this is such a common occurrence that Japanese society ignores this video work. Those that are envious of the Japanese economic success will become less so if they see this work and realize what this real phenomena in Japanese society is like.

Part of the Chinese Historical Ethnographic Film Series (1957-1966)

45-year-old Hiro Kamon works as a librarian because she loves books. Although she is worshiped as the "aloof beauty" and "ideal female" for her beautiful, gentle smile and amiability, she actually dislikes people. Hiro has been hurt countless times, and Chōji, the only guy she loved wholeheartedly in university, also fled in one night. She has become a person who no longer believes in love and has decided to live alone for life. But she ends up acting as a "fake married couple" with Chōji, whom she happens to meet again, for the sake of his mother, Teruno, who has been given a short time to live.

In order to take over the Xia family business, Xia Qian Ge has to marry into the Gu Family. Everybody expects her to marry the older Gu brother, Gu Cheng Feng, but an encounter with the younger brother, Gu Cheng Ze, leads Xia Qian Ge to change the groom - much to Gu Cheng Feng’s dismay. After entering a contract marriage the two start their interesting cohabitation and inadvertently fall in love. But fate has it that the two are connected by an incident that happened 5 years earlier. What will happen to their love when the truth comes out?

On June 22nd, 2005, Bill C-38 passed a final reading in the House of Commons, making Canada the fourth country in history to officially sanction same-sex marriages. Some saw it as the final hurdle in a 40-year marathon for equality. To others, it undermined an age-old building block of society. This controversial legislation continues to divide the country, and indeed the world, in half. Through interviews with the public as well as experts in various fields, 'C-38: The Search for Marriage' challenges common notions about marriage, sexuality and equality to answer these and other fundamental questions from an equal and fair perspective.

Xu Liren (played by Liao Wai-hung) has always been self-righteous and harsh on others, but due to a terminal illness, he has changed his personality and outlook on life. The senior clerk Liu Qitai (played by Hui Shaoxiong) and the receptionist Li Jiaju (played by Li Jiasheng) under Liren, the former is a lonely person, while the latter is a fool. Ka Kui has a girlfriend Jenny (played by Cui Jiabao), and the two break up due to personality differences. Ka Kui once met Wen Jing (played by Lin Yingxian), a girl from the Academy of Music. Wen Jing failed to see Ka Kui's face, but she already regarded Ka Kui as her lover in her heart. Later Qitai got acquainted with Wen Jing and pursued him hard. Wen Jing was moved by his sincerity and married, but the two divorced because of their acquaintance...

In order to resolve a crisis, two prominent names in the real estate industry agree to get engaged for 99 days - one is the domineering female CEO and the other merely a puppet executive. Gu Ling Se is the head of Dingzhuang Group. Ye Cheng Shu is the figurehead of Weilai Group. Out of commercial interests, the two young executives enter into a contract engagement. Quan has been pursuing Gu Ling Se yet mistakenly plays cupid when his actions lead to a kiss between Ye Cheng Shu and Gu Ling Se. Soon enough, what was purely business has turned into a real romance. Just when everything seemed to be going well, Ye Cheng Shu's good friend Jiang Han reveals his wild ambition. Can the "president-in-training" and his "hardcore" wife save the family business?

The story of a couple who is too late to date, but too early to marry. Tyoma and Nika together for more than a year and they have good time together. But they are frivolous and not too serious about everything. They do not want to repeat the life of their parents: first job at 18, wedding at 20 and family and three children at 25. But to prove to the parents and themselves that they are ready for independent living, Tyoma and Nika decide to move together - they have Nika's grandmother's apartment. Nika's father can not tolerate Tyoma, but allows them to live in this apartment. Everything would be fine if this apartment were not located just a few floors below the apartment of Nika’s parents. Now they are waiting for all the delights of adult life: the search for work and food, quarrels about stupid things, annoying rich neighbors, and so on. Will a civil marriage break infantile and merry for Tyoma and Nika? Or will they learn an independent life and their love will only get stronger?

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.

“And they lived happily ever after” is an ending we are all too familiar with. On Marriage focuses on portraying all those struggles that couples encounter when they give up themselves to fulfill their marriage. In this anthology series, each individual episode explores varying meanings of marriage from five unique perspectives.