Tsutomu Shimomoto

Kita no kazoku

The 13th NHK Asadora. Starring Youko Takahashi in a story about a brother and sister coming of age in Hakodate...

Kogarashi Monjiro

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

Crest of Betrayal

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the...

Tenchu!

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leade...

House on Fire

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mist...

Story of a Prostitute

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldier...

The Autumn in Tokyo

A unique drama that contrasts the lives of a family of elite salarymen in Tokyo and a family of landowners in T...

The Wolves

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

Children of Hiroshima

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of...

Fountainhead

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

The Day the Sun Rose

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan,...

Break Down that Wall

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

How Sorrowful

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about...

Ditch

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take i...

A Chain of Islands

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he...

Akitsu Hot Springs

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

Foundry Town

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dr...

The Thick-Walled Room

A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusi...

Beyond the Green Hills

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against schoo...

Fifth Movement

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members ref...

Mune yori mune ni

Japanese drama

The Four Loves

A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him a...

Vacuum Zone

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for the...

Kaze no Sumu Ie

A human drama that rethinks what it means to be a family through the images of a couple, parent and child whose...

Desperate Pursuit

In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sniper. After...

Miniature

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to t...

Kikenna onna

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

The Heart

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

Hana to musume to shiroi michi

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

Ningen Gari

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

The Sleeping Beast Within

A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworl...

Wakai hito-tachi

"Guys Who Never Learn" Part 2

Sequel to "Guys Who Never Learn".

Jugyo Sankan no Onna

One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the child...

Distant Love

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

Cape Ashizuri

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of...