Ken Ogata

A lonely retired girl’s High School Principal who’s lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apartment in a country town. There he ...

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange ...

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he’s caught ...

A shogun’s eldest son must do whatever it takes to survive a series of attempts on his life. He receives much-needed aid from seven ...

At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level ...

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work

When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his ...

A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend’s father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the ...

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, ...

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his ...

A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.

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