Taiko Shinbashi

Female Reporter Saeko's Homicide Coverage (2001)

Magazine reporter Saeko Kawamura receives a message on her answering machine from her friend Yuka asking for help... when Saeko goes to Takamatsu in Shikoku to find Yuka, she runs into journalist Ogata! ...

Sharaku (1995)

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and pro ...

Remembrance (1988)

The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao becomes involved with Yasuko, sister to Sumio. ...

Lovely Days (1984)

The film depicts the life of a man who works at a crematorium he inherited from his father. An adaptation of Yoshiko Shigekane's novel Smoke of Mountain Air. ...

Lonely Heart (1981)

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case. ...

The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge (1981)

Magistrate Toyama no Kin-san is ordered to catch the phantom thief Nezumi Kozo, who is robbing daimyo and wealthy townspeople. Under the name of Nezumi Kozo, there is a small wholesaler Jiro. And once Toyama and Jiro, when they were young, were comrades wh ...

Gate of Youth (1981)

The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of his life. Shinsuke's father a group leader ...

Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter (1975)

Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone in the office, she's spotted rolling up her pantyhose by the window cleaner Kurata Katsuo. This was to be t ...

Touch of Love (1974)

Eros + Massacre (1969)

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories. ...