Set with three central figures, "Mother Water" describes the daily lives of people near the Kamo River in Kyoto, Japan.

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

27-year-old Eto Kana lives in Tokyo and has never been out of the city before. She used to work as a...

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his ...

Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed ...

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, an...

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridor...

Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba...

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, ...

After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, ru...

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golde...

Kanae's husband disappeared without a trace while on a union trip. Though usually headstrong and ind...

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he a...

Environmental drama set in Asturias, Spain. A Scottish travel writer is forced to stay in a valley t...

A schoolboy has a crush on his pretty class-mate Keiko on the inland island of Awaji. He figures her...

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto ...

Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko...

Born and raised in Kyoto, 17 years old Takatoyo spends all his summer holidays in his hometown. Howe...

Madoka meets her husband's parents, who run a 450-year-old hand fan shop in the center of Kyoto. Tog...