Keisuke Kinoshita

Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.

A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she's a stripper.

Explores the wounds of war, the limits of love and the need to forgive. A sad and troubled man, Reikichi Mayumi finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies and thinks back to when he was fifteen. He recalls his time with, and away from, the girl cousin he grew up with and would have married, except the family and other pr...

Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow, does what she can to keep her daughter Utako and son Seiichi safe, fed, and sheltered. By 1953, it's clear that the children, as they enter adulthood,...

In this second part to The Yotsuda Phantom, Iemon's apparent success is minimized by his own feelings of guilt, the quickly mounting evidence, and Naosuke's constant hounding.

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

A homeless man falls ill near a wealthy family's home, who take him in and find themselves dealing with his visiting friends.

The atom-bombing of Nagasaki, Japan in 1945 is recalled by a survivor.

A dark secret awaits a dance-hall girl when she goes to meet her former lover.

While revelations of his lower class past threaten his job, a school teacher fights for freedom and equality.

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.

A young war widow remembers her short time with her husband.

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

A widow life is left in turmoil when her childhood lover returns to town, left between the decision whether to go with him and start a new life in tokyo or settle down with her kindly brother-in-law, amidst a growing scandal that ...

Three criminals planning to rob a house are continually delayed by the families antics.

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

A young man ignores his mother's pleas and becomes drawn to a life of crime.

A young wife looses patience with her career-minded husband and returns to her parents' home while an unpaid mortgage forces the couple to rent out their home for the summer to the husband's boss.

Two journalists and their lovers share an uncertain future.

A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.

The Kamiya family struggles to keep the town fishing association from going bankrupt as they deal with a dishonest captain and his degenerate crew.