Sanae Takasugi

The Munekata Sisters

Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love wit...

The Wolves

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

Oh, My Son!

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

A Japanese Tragedy

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful so...

Women of the Night

In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's si...

Turbid Youth

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at...

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

Kekkon Sanjûshi

The Valley Between Love and Death

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to...

Wife

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has...

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And desp...

Aruhi watashi wa

The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a matern...

Hiroba no kōdoku

Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta

College Is a Nice Place

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find...

Moon Over the Ruins

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

Our Neighbor, Miss Yae

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting...

Between Women and Wives

Japan Samurai: Niiro Tsuruchiyo

An adaptation of the famous novel by Jiromasa Gunji about the difficult story of Niiro Tsuruchiyo, the illegiti...

限りなき情熱

Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets...

Hotaru no hikari

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone w...

Elegy of the North

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsur...

Okoto and Sasuke

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manserv...

Okoto and Sasuke

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manserv...

Eclipse

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishi...

So Goes My Love

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow ev...

Family Meeting

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

Wedding March

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Osayo Koi Sugata

The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the...

Bored Hatamoto Passes By

Bored Hatamoto movie #14

Musume wa kaku kōgi suru

A story about a high school sophomore, Uzumi Keiko (Kyoko Kami), in a coastal Japanese city, Keiko’s coming-of-...

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

男の哀愁

Mother's Love Letter

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead

The ghost of a murdered husband appears nightly to his loving wife. A mystery of resentment surrounding a famou...

Family Diary

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get...

Vermilion and Green

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.