Mayumi Kurata

As a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.

After Zatoichi learns of his sensei's murder he uncovers a horrible conspiracy involving the local government and crime family.

Takeo is a young yakuza who renounces his former criminal activities after being released from prison. But sometimes escaping the past is not so easy.

Koen is a geisha who has intimate relationships with several men at once. One of them, the mature Tsutsui, proposes to set a step to a change of exclusivity.

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is t...