A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese...
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to...
A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband
A kabuki theatre inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mo...
In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers A patriarchal, feudalistic h...
In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile His wife and children try to join him...
A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteen...
Follows a womans fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mothers attempt to sustain her family
A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a young, smart boy, in the lively Tokyo q...
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husbands illness via Hulu
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a drinking habit Shes always bee...
Iemon Tamiya is an impovershed masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have bec...
In this second part to The Yotsuda Phantom, Iemons apparent success is minimized by his own feelings...
A mistress of a drug dealer in post war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an aff...
A young war widow remembers her short time with her husband
Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo pro...
A writer struggles to finish his story against many distractions, but the jazz party next door prove...
