Chieko Naniwa

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû ...

Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to ...

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji’s final project; he died before ...

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters ...

The remake of Yoshikawa’s novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji ...

In the fourth installment, Musashi’s potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental ...

In the third installment of Yoshikawa’s novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on ...

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Taka married Kichisaburo Kawashima, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just tried to play with her like a sweet candy, but Taka fell in ...

Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru’s elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro’s elder sister, Mikako at ...

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat. Release: Shozo a Cat and Two Women 1956 ...

A small-time con artist gets word that his mother will come see him in Edo. To avoid her finding out that he’s been wildly exaggerating his ...

In 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the best ...

The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress, in one of Ozu’s most deftly ...

It’s a man’s world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he ...

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre ...

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa ...

Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living ...

The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is about to be purchased by a client, steals money ...

Later in his career, Ozu started becoming increasingly sympathetic with the younger generation, a shift that was cemented in Equinox Flower, his ...