Chieko Naniwa

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently release from one of Japan’s new rehabilitation centers ...

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 ...

Wataru Hirayama’s outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician ...

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family’s patriarch, who was exiled years before.

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find ...