Tag Archives: Akira Takarada

Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working Read More »

When seventeen vessels blow-up and sink nearby Odo Island, Professor Kyohei Yamane, his daughter Emiko Yamane Read More »

Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. Read More »

Nobuko (Hideko Takamine) is a gentle Japanese woman who endures several ordeals during her adult life in this somber, sentimental drama. Read More »

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. Read More »