Ichirō Sugai

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its ...

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 ...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan’s navy ...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman’s banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new ...

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is ...

Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse ...