Yoshiko Kuga

A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Desolate by the loss of his daughter, a geneticist creates a monstrous new mutation.

A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.

A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.

Yukiko's mother runs a lodging house for courtesans in Kyoto. When her fiance learns this, he ends their engagement. Yukiko despises what her mother does until one of her mother's clients shows interest in her and starts to woo her.

A shrewd 16th Century samurai helps a daimyo expand his realm.

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.

Mohei is a wandering swordsman. He arrives in the city of Osaka, where the Toyotomi clan accepts him and comes to depend upon his courage and his battlefield skills. Those skills are sorely tested when Osaka Castle is besieged by ...

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.

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

Story 1 : "The Thirteenth Night". Seki turns up at her parents' house in the dead of night, where she breaks down and says she cannot continue to live with her husband, a rich man to whom the family is indebted. After a tearful an...

After defeat at the Siege of Osaka several survivors attempt to deliver a young prince to safety.

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.