From a true incident that happened in 1960's Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it focuses on a tangled web of murder and deceit encountered by a beautiful woman, Kayo after her abusive husband is murdered.

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...

Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's fami...

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exi...

Just 80 years ago, the peaceful sea was a battlefield. Soldiers continued to fight, dreaming of retu...

Tatsuji Miyoshi regards Sakutaro Hagiwara as his teacher. Feelings run deeper since he loves Sakutar...

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares...

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

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to v...

The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led shel...

Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—f...

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular...

Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Rel...

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marr...

Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which s...

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shige...

When Keiji Takama returns to Nagasaki, he finds many changes. The rights of the entertainment field ...

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelin...