Masao Hayama

The lives of unhappy children and women, particularly mothers, burdened by societal restrictions, prejudices and straitened economic ...

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with ...

Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he ...

On vacation’s eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement. ...

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a ...

A poor factory worker, visiting the Tokyo son she has skimped to educate, finds even a college degree doesn’t make a difference in ...