Ayako Hosho
1917 - 2015うず潮
Buichi Saito
Sayuri Yoshinaga, Mitsuo Hamada
It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and Fumiko finds herself in financial trouble, not being able to pay for her schooling and her school excursion trip. Still, she gets a temporary job at a factory and tries to make ends meet. A film about bright side of youth adapted from the television serial of the same name.
Eddy Currents of Life
智恵子抄
Noboru Nakamura
Shima Iwashita, Tetsurō Tamba
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her family, she finds herself unable to confide in her husband, and the pain she carries within begins to weigh heavily on her sanity...
Portrait of Chieko
古都
Kon Ichikawa
Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura
Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned that her parents are not her biological parents. Cheiko's mother told her that she was stolen while sleeping under a cherry tree in Gion, Kyoto, Japan, but Chieko doesn't believe that. Her relationship with her parents is very close. Chieko only tells her childhood friend Shinichi, but...
Koto: The Ancient City
Kuro bara no yakata
Kinji Fukasaku
Kikko Matsuoka, Kō Nishimura
A feverishly perverse 1969 film noir oddity starring female impersonator Akihiro Maruyama. When wealthy Kyohei hires singer "Black Rose" to perform in his exclusive men's club, he gets more than he bargains for when she attracts scores of homicidal past lovers. The film takes a bizarre twist when Kyohei's son falls victim to the femme fatale's unique charm.
Black Rose Mansion
エバラ家の人々
Tatsuhiko Takada
Kyuji Aozora, Koji Aozora
The Ebara family, a typical middle-class family living in downtown Tokyo. When her mother-in-law sold a mountain, a large amount of 70 million yen came in, and with that as a down payment, she got her longing detached house. A slapstick drama for each family is unfolded on the stage of a dream home.
Ebarake no hitobito
私を抱いてそしてキスして
Jun'ya Satô
Yōko Minamino, Hidekazu Akai
Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and resist the infection, she finds new friendship and companionship with a journalist named Miyuki and a man named Akira.
Hold Me and Kiss Me
