Set with three central figures, "Mother Water" describes the daily lives of people near the Kamo River in Kyoto, Japan.
In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age o...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...
Two estranged brothers inherit Marukin Hot Springs, a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an homage...
Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed ...
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his ...
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...
Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she w...
27-year-old Eto Kana lives in Tokyo and has never been out of the city before. She used to work as a...
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...
Kanae's husband disappeared without a trace while on a union trip. Though usually headstrong and ind...
Born and raised in Kyoto, 17 years old Takatoyo spends all his summer holidays in his hometown. Howe...
Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko...
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 ...
Environmental drama set in Asturias, Spain. A Scottish travel writer is forced to stay in a valley t...