Kazuko Inano

Kogarashi Monjiro

Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown w...

Taikouki

Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period daimyo who uni...

The Inferno

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief f...

Prophecies of Nostradamus

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of th...

A Wanderer's Notebook

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the...

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces...

Confessions Among Actresses

In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored....

The Possessed

Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Osh...

Eros + Massacre

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with t...

Youth After School

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around t...

The Storm over Arabia

A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on...

秘められた関係

The Curse of the Ghost

About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is...

Whirlpool of Flesh

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that thei...

Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters

Ex-conman Junpei plots revenge on a corrupt corporation by leading a team of swindlers posing as politicians. A...

Evil Spirits in the Darkness

The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period, and the h...

Yakuza Hooligans

A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the y...

Flora on the Sand

One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an...

Futari no Koibito

Our Wonderful Years

The story of a selfless mother and her family throughout the decades, from the 1920's to the 1960's.

Judo vs. Karate

A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.

Izuko e

Story about an English teacher in a rural town's school.

Zenigeba

Based on the comic by George Akiyama

The Hunter's Diary

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman,...

Satsujinsha o Kese

A man who is fed up with his office job finds himself targeted by a hitman after he unexpectedly agrees to act...