Yasushi Takeda

A ninety-minute rhythmic meditation on nature, spirituality, and perspective.

Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through the Soviet Union's sudden attack upon Japanese troops at the end of the war.

This Roman Porno melodrama from Nikkatsu in-house luminary Chusei Sone concerns a married woman (Junko Miyashita) whose husband’s infidelity drives her to sleep with both of her sisters’ lovers. Kazuko Shirakawa, in one of her final appearances before her highly publicized wedding, plays the husband's combative mistress.

Roman Porno from 1972.

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Yukie is a young woman who works at her father's flower shop. She uses her job to hide from her problems including a marriage troubled by her sexual frigidity. Her husband and her best friend engage in an affair, and Yukie goes to her father for advice on how to save her marriage.

A working-class housewife is sexually unsatisfied by her husband. When she seeks extramarital relationships, her affairs are discovered by a brothel-owner who then blackmails the woman into working as a prostitute for her.

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition.

Keisuke Godai, head of the upstart Godai family conglomerate, plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria.

Film from 1967.