Kazuo Kitamura

Churasan

The 64th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Churasan, a story of a young woman, Kohagura Eri, who was born in Kohamaj...

High and Low

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

Akō Rōshi

"Ako Roshi" is a group of 47 former retainers of Lord Asano. Lord Asano was forced to commit suicide after atte...

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

The chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late Heian and early Kam...

Musashi

Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara...

Haru no Sakamichi

The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.

Life of a Flower

The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.

Tora! Tora! Tora!

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed...

シークレット部隊

Oretachi no Tabi

A milestone in Japanese teen drama, representing the 1970s. It questions the meaning of life, worries, and joys.

Iki no Iiyatsu

Set in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo shortly after the end of the war, the story follows a stubborn, old-fashione...

Kwaidan

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A...

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on retur...

Brother

The drama depicts the lives and loves of people living in three different environments: a family consisting of...

Japan Sinks

In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disast...

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conferen...

Profound Desires of the Gods

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill...

Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the governmen...

I Miss Age 35

Akemi's marriage was the kind that no one could complain about. Akemi had perfect kids and a great husband. Eve...

The Insect Woman

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its m...

Intentions of Murder

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condit...

Daihijôsen

An action detective drama depicting the activities of detectives belonging to a fictional department called the...

The Man Who Stole the Sun

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school t...

Vengeance Is Mine

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

The Geisha

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and rema...

Heat Wave

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has...

Eijanaika

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and...

Taro the Dragon Boy

Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mytho...

Black Rain

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and ni...

An Inlet of Muddy Water

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult...

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leade...

Yearning

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, thei...

The Pornographers

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he us...

Tales of a Golden Geisha

Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundrels who don’...

The Militarists