Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru

Kwaidan

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

The Inheritance

A dying businessman intends to will ¥200 million to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme...

The Wolves

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japa...

Savage Wolf Pack

A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is...

Akitsu Hot Springs

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

The Heart

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they...

Hanran

Geisha Hidekoma

As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma...

The Town

Harbor Rats

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the ho...

Kaachan

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerf...

Happy Story Nankai Changgyoku

The Panorama Group, a group of young people who work together with an old professor who is passionate about mak...

I Love The Sun

A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.

Roppa no Hōjiro Sensei

Original work by Hyakken Uchida.

Otona to kodomo no ainoko dai

Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte

Nightingale

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

Ishigassen

Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scramble...

The Responsibility of Kissing