Haruko Sugimura

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring ...

Follows a young med student’s relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother’s struggle to ...

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager–and then wrote a bestselling novel about it–reappears in her life, ...

Ushimatsu’s father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting ...

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an ...

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn’t see any future in her ...

What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, ...

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

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their ...

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the ...

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is ...