Etsuko Ichihara

The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist ...

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality. Release: The Face of ...

High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in ...

The mother of a feudal lord’s only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide ...

The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse’s novel.

Izumi is an urchin who was set adrift by his parents. He is a thug, a thief and a predator. on the run from the cops he takes to the mountains of ...

White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he’s away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After ...

Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who ...

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

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case. Release: Lonely Heart NTSC DVD ...

The story surrounds a boy and a cow who have always lived their lives together. One winter, a famine strikes their village. The villagers resolve ...

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home ...

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It’s unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes ...

Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by Yakuza. His life is spared by Boss ...

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his ...

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation ...

A poor village in the Tohoku area has a law that states when a resident becomes sixty years old, they must move to the place called Warabino, far ...

After being deserted by her parents, 11-year old Miyori shuts her heart from the rest of the world and denies any form of human relationships. ...

Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to ...

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective’s own life begins to ...