Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather to a young officer named Shinobu Ijuin. Because of his family’s noble status, Benio must first undergo rigorous training to learn how to be a proper bride and wife before she can marry. However, because of her vivacious personality, this proves to me more challenging than anyone imagined.
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His m...
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
The story follows Benio "Haikara-san" Hanamura, who lost her mother when she was very young and has ...
Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face h...
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewi...
In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes...
Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and...
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even...
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship ...
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...
An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in th...
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale you...
An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander...
An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the ...
Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent...
After marrying the head of the military, Benio hears her husband died in Siberia during a war. Howev...