Mami Okamoto

風のかたみ

Yukiko Takayama

Shima Iwashita, Shinobu Sakagami

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Paul Schrader

Ken Ogata, Gô Rijû

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

Tree Without Leaves

Kaneto Shindō

Nobuko Otowa, Ichirô Zaitsu

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.

ジャズ大名

Kihachi Okamoto

Ikkô Furuya, Ichirô Zaitsu

Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.

大誘拐

Kihachi Okamoto

Ken Ogata, Tôru Kazama

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place.

Before The Leaves Fall

Mineko Okamoto

Kaoru Yachigusa, Tôru Kazama

An elderly woman sets out to see in person a painting by a famous artist.She believes she was the inspiration for the painting.