Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname isn't as boring as it seems on the surface. Not with characters around like Shimeko, a girl genius with a childlike lack of propriety, and her ace fisherman/folk-singer dad. Or the overbearing and unpleasant local Shinto priest, a former Christian cultist. Or Endo, Kazuya's new colleague, a bitter drunk after his son's suicide. Or Kin, a former terrorist, now a hermit on his boat engaging in secret "research." Or perhaps most importantly Teruko, the hypnotically beautiful bar owner, the focus of all manner of innuendo and intrigue. Something mysterious, even mystical, is going on Kaname, and hapless Kazuya is about to be thrown into the middle of it.

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

Yumi Fukuzawa is an ordinary first year student at Lillian Girls' Academy. By chance Yumi meets seco...

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Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and n...

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Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...

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The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their ma...

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Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals....

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A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.