Tag Archives: Mariko Okada

The day before Japan announces its defeat in WW2, a very ill Shusaku arrives in Okayama. Read More »

A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely women Read More »

After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate Read More »

A woman, unhappily married to a cheating executive, starts meeting her dead mother’s lover Read More »

Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Read More »

Illusion of Blood takes place in the mid-19th century and concerns a masterless samurai named Iuemon Tamiya (Tatsuya Nakadai) Read More »

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan’s greatest Samurai, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Read More »

A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination Read More »

The aftermath of the death of the biggest yakuza family. Read More »

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. Read More »

Shizuo discovers a mysterious letter about his fiancé Yumiko, which prompts him to explore his sexual psychology and memories. Read More »

With his closest friend, Matahachi, Takezo (the town’s wild, orphan kid) leaves his village to join an army on its way to battle. Read More »

In the 1920s, the anarchist revolutionary Sakae Osugi is financially supported by his wife, journalist Itsuko Masaoka. Read More »

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband’s child. Read More »

This is a film about a Naval Air Corps Director who hates the war. Director Honda uses this film to ask the question “What is war?”, showing the human bonds between Japan and America Read More »