Shizue Kawarazaki

The film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an atomic bomb on humans for the first time in ...

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century ...

The story develops in the Tokugawa era of the 18th century, in a poor district of Tokyo, where impoverished samurai live from hand to mouth among ...

Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempts a self righteous priest. Release: The ...

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the ...