Misako Watanabe

A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). Becoming a goze due to her blindness at seven-years-old, Haru was strictly trained with a parent's affection by her once kind mother, Tome.

福岡県大牟田市出身の青年・田中亮太は漫画家を目指して上京したが、仲間のデビューやバイト先の夜逃げにショックを受けて夢破れ、故郷に帰ってきた。しかし、親の反対を押し切っての上京だったため実家には戻れず、同級生の家に居候させてもらうことにする。そんなある日、亮太は友人から地元の延命動物園でのアルバイトを紹介される。亮太は園長の野田をはじめとする個性的な飼育員たちに戸惑いながら、黙々とアルバイトに励む。

北鎌倉にある古書店「ビブリア古書堂」。夏目漱石の直筆と推察される署名入りの「それから」を持ち込んだ五浦大輔(野村周平)は、持ち主である亡き祖母の秘密を解き明かした店主・篠川栞子(黒木華)の推理力に驚く。その後栞子を手伝うことになった大輔は、彼女が所有する太宰治の「晩年」の希少本が、「人間失格」の主人公と同じ「大庭葉蔵」を名乗る人物に狙われていることを知る。

安倍夜郎のヒット漫画を原作にしたTVドラマシリーズ「深夜食堂」の映画化第2弾。繁華街の路地裏にある小さな食堂“めしや”。春夏秋冬、ちょっとワケありな客がマスターの作る懐かしい味に心の重荷を下ろし、明日への一歩を踏み出す。

Ayane is the daughter of a karaage (fried food) store owner, but she never liked karaage. Eventually, she left home, only to return 5 years later. Her family lives in the city of Usa in Oita Prefecture, Japan. She brings with her a young girl named Shirley, who is her step-daughter from her ex-husband.

1995年。とある出版社の営業部に勤めていた真面目で風変わりな青年・馬締は、その独特の言葉のセンスを買われて辞書編集部に異動し、定年間近のベテラン編集者・荒木の指導の下、新しい辞書の編纂作業に取り組むことに。一つ一つの言葉にぴたりと合う絶妙の定義をひねり出す一方で、馬締は、下宿先で出会って一目惚れした美しい女性の香具矢に、自分の胸の内をなかなか伝えることができず、苦悩と焦燥の色を深めていく。

小さな２階建ロッジのパン屋が湖畔に開店した。夫の水縞尚が焼くパンと、妻のりえが入れるおいしいコーヒーが自慢の店。店名は、りえがお気に入りの絵本「月とマーニ」にちなんで「カフェマーニ」。たちまち近所で人気の店になり、子沢山で農家経営の広川一家、謎のトランクを持った阿部さん、地獄耳のガラス作家・陽子さん、そして毎日配達にきてくれる郵便屋さんなどの常連客に憩いの場を提供する。薪の竃で焼いたパンの他、自家菜園の野菜を使った料理も絶品。１階のテーブル席では、大きな窓に湖畔の景色が映え、日が没すると月夜が輝く。２階は簡易宿泊所になっており、ときどき、正面のバス停を利用して遠方から旅行客も訪れる。

Youjin is a quirky young man living in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Yojin has a difficult time sitting still and can't focus on extended conversations. His life revolves around farming his grandmother's vegetable garden. Yojin experiences a new kind of feeling when he meets a pretty young lady named Machiko. The feelings are strong enough that he feels the need to be with her and gain her affection.

In a quiet farming village in northeastern Japan, there lives an elderly couple. One day, a notice arrives in the mail about an antique camera sale in Tokyo. This triggers the old man's memory of the time when he used to love cameras and he decides he wants to go to Tokyo. Going on this shopping trip is like embarking on an adventure for them and is is full of surprises and unexpected happenings, but through this adventure, the old couple's lives slowly get revealed. Before heading home, the couple stops by Tokyo Station, a place that holds fond memories for them. They take a photo together with the old man's camera and quietly reflect back on the long life that they spent together.

『凍える鏡』（こごえるかがみ）は、2008年の日本の映画。精神科医の監修を受け、邦画として初めて自己愛性パーソナリティ障害を取り扱った。田中圭の初めての主演映画であり、また渡辺美佐子の100本目の映画出演作品でもある。 画家をめざす青年・岡野瞬は東京の路上で自分の描いた絵を売っていた。ある日、信州の山荘でひとり暮らしをしている年老いた童話作家・矢崎香澄が講演のために上京し、その帰り道、街角で瞬の絵に目を留める。これが2人の出会いであった。やがて自殺した香澄の親友の部屋の片付けなどをきっかけに、親子以上に年の離れた瞬と香澄は不思議な絆で結ばれていく。瞬は少年のように純粋な心を持ちながら、すぐに怒りを爆発させては周囲と問題を起こす不安定な精神状態で、それを心配した香澄は、臨床心理士をしている一人娘・矢崎由里子に瞬の治療を頼む。由里子は瞬と面談し、彼に自己愛性パーソナリティ障害の傾向があることを感じる。カウンセリングを通して少しずつ心の平穏を覚え、同時に由里子に好意を抱いていく瞬。その過程で、瞬が幼児期に母から虐待を受けていた事実が明らかになっていく。そして実は、由里子自身も母親の香澄に対し、密かに充たされぬ感情を抱いていたのだった…。

1960年代。3歳のボク（オダギリジョー）は、真夜中に玄関の戸を蹴破って帰ってきた酔っぱらいのオトン（小林薫）にいきなり焼き鳥の串を食べさせられてしまう。オトンに手を焼いたオカン（樹木希林）はボクを筑豊の実家に連れ帰り、妹の“ブーブおばさん”の小料理屋を手伝いながら、女手一つでボクを育て始めるのだった。

1960年代、長野県松本市。秋津高校3年の亮介は登校途中に一匹の黒い野良犬を見つけ、自分の弁当をその犬に分け与えてやった。その頃、亮介のクラスでは、生徒同士が学園祭の出し物に使う犬の作り物を壊してしまったことで揉めていた。そんなところへ亮介が駆けつけた時、生徒たちは彼に着いてきた黒犬の佇まいを見て閃く。果たしてこの本物の犬は作り物の代役に起用され、出し物は黒犬の活躍で盛況に終わる。これによって一躍学校の人気者となったこの犬はクロと名付けられ、校舎内に居つくようになるのだった。

吉村正子は、クリーニング店を営む母親を手伝う冴えない40過ぎの女性。家にとじこもりっきりで、恋人はおろか友人さえもいない。そんなある日、母親が急死してしまう。通夜の晩、ホステスをしている妹が正子に向かっていつものようにきつい言葉をぶつける。カッとなった正子は妹を殺してしまう。我に返った正子はその場から逃げ出す。そして、初めて外の世界へ出た正子の逃亡生活が始まった。

Knowing that he has only a month to live, a pianist goes back to his beloved ocean. He meets a girl with a broken leg. She is the daughter of his dearest woman who died many years ago. The relationship between them becomes closer. They rescue a man who tries to commit suicide. When the pianist is nearing his end, that man finds love in the girl's heart...

A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of Kanei, Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo area, died. Although Tadatoshi forbade his vassals to follow him in death before he died, they still committed seppuku one after the other. The new feudal lord, Mitsunao, Tadatoshi's son, also gave the order forbidding seppuku. Abe Yaichiemon obeyed his former lord's last wish but is now being called a coward by his comrades and finally decided to follow Tadatoshi in death in order to save his family's honor. Mitsunao, upset by Yaichiemon actions, punished the Abe family unfairly. Objected to this, the Abe family shut themselves up in their manor as the lords troops moved in. This is the true story of what happened within the Hosokawa clan in early Edo era.

明治20年。九州に芸者として売られてきた5歳の志津は、見習い芸者の鶴のもと美しく成長する。20年後、鶴は熊本一の遊郭・東雲楼でおかみとなり、志津もそこで働く。鶴はパトロンの相場師・山岡の再起に望みを託し、東雲楼を担保に大金を用立てるが、山岡は失脚して自殺し、東雲楼は有働組の組長とその情婦・照香の手に渡る。志津は鉄道工事作業員・執行と結婚したかったが山岡失脚の責任を取らされ、東雲楼から追放される。

Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years later, she seeks out the relatives of the pilots when the piano is old and about to be discarded.

A suspense drama based on Osamu Takahashi's original work starring Shinobu Otake. The shooting location of Gunkanjima is a famous tourist attraction. When Mansako returns to her husband's parents' house, she noticed a young man named Shinji playing drums at a village festival. Shinji who felt her gaze also looked back at Mansako. Masako invites Shinji to her house to welcome her husband together, and is witnessed by a housewife who came to inform her husband of the accidental death while helping him change clothes. She is stigmatized for infidelity. They are separated, but they vow to meet again 12 years later.

西伊豆の小さな港町。生まれつき体が弱く、あまやかされて育ったわがままな１８歳の少女・つぐみ。夏休み、東京の大学に通う従姉妹のまりあが帰ってきて、姉の陽子と３人で穏やかな日々を送っていた。そんなある日、つぐみは美術館に勤める恭一と出会い、運命的なものを感じ恋に落ちる。しかし、つぐみに横恋慕する不良少年たちが恭一に暴行を加え、つぐみの愛犬までも殺してしまう。

少年院あがりで、20歳のときに「30歳になるまでに何かドデカいことをやったる!」と誓った竹田明夫。それまでの生活を一変させるため、パーマをかけ、胸に刺青を入れキャバレーのボーイになった。同じ店のナンバー・ワン・ホステスの三千代を強引にくどき同棲を始める…。

Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its fortunes during the Middle Ages. According to the legend, his motivation was a pivotal childhood incident at the age of six when his mother summoned him and told him about his destiny to revive the fortunes of the Honganji school to which he was the next in line. She then mysteriously disappeared from the temple. Taking her words to heart, from a background of great poverty and hardship, at the age of 16 he set out to spread the word across the land.

Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers took the sedative thalidomide during pregnancy. Tsuji has stunted flipper-like arms amputated at the behest of a father who deserted her soon after her birth. Nonetheless, the resourceful Noriko uses her feet to accomplish most of the tasks others would do with their hands.

岡山と兵庫の県境にある山村・鬼首村。そこに村出身の人気美人歌手・別所千恵が帰省して以来、恐ろしい殺人事件が連続して発生する。しかも一連の事件は、村に古くから伝わる手毬唄の歌詞の通りに行なわれていることが判明する。私立探偵・金田一耕助は、どうやら事件の原因に仁礼家と由良家という村の旧家同士の確執があることを察知し、20年前にやはりこの村で起きた殺人事件の謎へと遡っていく。

A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another. She dedicates herself to her work, designing and creating plaited cords for kimono.

In post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation of a legend about a mummified Buddhist monk who was revived and who, centuries later, turned into a sex demon who terrorized a village in pre-modern Japan.

A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments

Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sasuke is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Tatewaki, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both. By tale’s end, no one is who they seemed to be, and the truth is far more personal than anyone suspected. Director Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, filled with clan intrigue, ninja spies, and multiple double crosses, marks a bold stylistic departure from swordplay film convention.

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.

「黒髪」：妻を捨て、京都から遠い任地へと赴いた武士。そこで彼は、良い家柄の娘と結婚するが、彼女は冷酷な女で、男は今さら、別れた妻のことを思い出すのだった。やがて任期を終え、京都に戻った彼は最初の妻と再会するが…。「雪女」：きこりの巳之吉は、森へ薪を採りに入ったところで吹雪に遭い、山小屋に閉じ込められるはめに。その晩彼は、雪女の姿を目の当たりにし…。ほかに「耳無し抱一の話」「茶碗の中」の計4編。

雑誌社に勤める守屋伴子には外交官の父がいたが、赴任先のキューバで動乱に巻き込まれて死んだことになっていた。伴子の母・節子は大学教授の隠岐達三と、伴子を連れて再婚した。隠岐は名の売れた教授だが世間体を人一倍気にする男で、絵を売ることを趣味にしていた。ある日、伴子は原稿を依頼するために女画商で有名な高野佐衛子の画廊を訪ねた。初対面の佐衛子はなぜかまじまじと佐衛子の顔をみつめると、明日自宅まで取りに来てほしいと言うのだった。その日、神田の古本屋に父の達三と行った伴子は岡部雄吉という大学院生と知り合った。雄吉は伴子に向かってズバズバとものを言ったが、伴子はかえって好感を抱いた。翌日、伴子は原稿を受け取りに佐衛子の豪華な邸宅を訪れたが、佐衛子はハバナで伴子の実父・恭吾に会ったことがあると告げるのだった。佐衛子にはキューバで知り合った恭吾に強烈に惹かれた過去があった。しかも革命に協力した恭吾を心ならずも裏切って、政府軍に密告したことが深い傷跡となって残っていた。伴子と初めて会った時、恭吾にあまりにも似た容姿から直感的に感じ取っていたのだ。このことは伴子にとって本当に意外な話だった。伴子にはその人の記憶がまるで無い。父と呼んだ記憶が無いのだ。そのうえ、父は日本に帰ってきたという。伴子はまだ見ぬ父への慕情が募りつつも、父と会うべきかどうかためらうのだった。

In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to avenge his father's death continues. His discovery of a mysterious note written by his father, Inspector Sena, held a clue to the inspector's murder 18 years ago. As Ukyunosuke continues further with his investigation into the conspiracy to uncover the truth behind his father's death, he must confront those eager to take his life. The great Okawa Hashizo shines in one of his signature roles bringing the ultimate conclusion of this epic tale of murder and revenge!

Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.

大坂冬の陣、夏の陣に活躍した真田十勇士の物語を、加藤泰監督が奇想天外な楽しさと面白さを盛り込み描いた型破りの時代活劇！！宇宙から降ってきた隕石の放射能の影響を受け、不思議な能力を身につけた戦国浮浪児の佐助。彼は成長して猿飛佐助と名乗り、むささびのお霧らとともに、カッコいい大将・真田幸村の部下となって、八百長だらけの大坂冬の陣、夏の陣を暴れまわる！

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Noro, the editor-in-chief, whose wife died a few years ago and was now living with her two orphans and her old mother....

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

The supply of sea bream to the fish market has decreased, and the price has increased to a whopping 1 ryo, and unable to face his customers openly anymore, Tasuke closes the shop and goes on a trip to celebrate the first wedding anniversary with his wife Onaka. Staying at the inn, Tasuke sees that dishes from magnificent sea bream are served here, which is very cheap. Tasuke goes to a fishing village and finds out here that a rich merchant is stopping the shipment of fish...

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown to his family and colleagues. A bevy of lawyers and associates scheme to procure the money for themselves, enlisting the aid of impostors and blackmail.

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

1962 Japanese movie

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amendment of the Peace Preservation Law, and was assassinated by a rightist prior to his opposition speech.

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the Sakura Film Company which offers him an assignment to "Cover Tokyo" with a camera. But he is disillusioned when he is told he must work together with Miharu, a good looking girl in the film company's publicity department. Then the fun begins.

Two men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter attempts to solve the crime.

A sharpshooter kills two prisoners in a police van at night. The guard on the van is suspended for six months; he's Tamon, an upright, modest man. He begins his own investigation into the murders. Who were the victims, who are their relatives and girlfriends, who else was on the van that night? As he doggedly investigates, others die, coincidences occur, and several leads take him to the Hamaju Agency, which may be supplying call girls. Its owner is in jail, his daughter, the enigmatic Yuko, keeps turning up where Tamon goes. Tamon believes he can awaken good in people, but has he met his match? Will he solve the murders or be the next victim? And who is Akiba?

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from turning an honest ranch into a gambling resort.

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named Wilson. Whenever Wilson comes, Yasuo spends his time in the tea-shop "La Gana." Yasuo is asked by his brother Shigeru to teach French to Akiko, a young girl who is studying French songs. Yasuo then learns that he is the winner of an essay contest and will be offered a scholarship to study in France. Akiko, is now pregnant and Yasuo promises to break with Yuriko.

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo Jima" asking the people who were close to him about his character and the painful memories off all those involved.

背中にギターを背負った「流し」の男が函館に降り立つ。用心棒として彼を雇った地元のボスは、土地再開発のために住民を立ち退かせるよう彼に指示する。そんなある日、港で密輸取引を行ったボスは、取引相手と彼を同時に始末しようとする。

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

山国の小都市にある北山高校では、近くある対抗野球大会で持ちきりである。だが三年の花巻竜司だけは、憂うつそうだった。竜司の家は伝統あるお寺で、父の玄城が病気で寝ているため、竜司が父の代理をしていた。家族は母と、婚期のおくれた姉の五人。竜司の悩みは、来年卒業して東京の大学に進学出来そうもないことだった。ある日の放課後、竜司は応援部のボス桐村たちに、竜司が学校新聞に書いた記事のことで殴られた。それを知った親友の小淵沢達也がかけつけ、竜司を助けた。竜司の気持を聞いた達也は、自分は芸者の子で父もなく、大学を出て就職するよりも自分の家の調理場を手伝い、将来は町一番の料理屋にしてみせるといった。達也の妹莉恵子も女中代りによく働いた。莉恵子は竜司が好きだが、竜司が同級生の醍醐優子と仲良しなのが気になった。恵まれた家庭に育った優子は竜司をいろいろと慰めた。ある夜、竜司は姉の友達令子がやっている酒場で、飲めない酒を飲み、そこに泊った。翌朝隣に令子が寝ているのをみて愕然とした。悩む竜司をたずねた莉恵子は、竜司に自分の気持を打明けた。一方達也は、自分は優子が好きだと竜司に告白した。それがもとで二人は喧嘩し絶交してしまった。数日後、川原で達也が桐村達に脅かされているのを聞き、喧嘩のことも忘れてかけつけた。これが縁で達也たちと桐村は仲直りした。達也と竜司も。二人の表情はいつしか晴れた空のように明るくなっていった。

Yoshikawa and Kaji are alumni - Yoshikawa leads a life loyal to his company Toho Corporation, whilst Kaji works in the underground world for Aoyama, a fixer trying to buy Toho out. One day, Yoshikawa is ordered to take a look into the information leakage which had resulted in a serious fall of the company stock price. Following his order, Yoshikawa reunites with Kaji but their relationship gets complicated through the presence of Akiko, the daughter of Kubo, chairman of Toho Corporation. There is an obvious financial conspiracy and several men are killed - Who is the true mastermind behind all the plots?

Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm.

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.

A delinquent young man (Kobayashi Akira) from a wealthy family decides to get in on a blackmailing scheme targeting his young stepmother (Watanabe Misako). However, he doesn't realize that his fellow blackmailers have their eyes on his girlfriend next.

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage of Shinji comes to light.

Japanese drama film.

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.

Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.

Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.

The first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the end of the Pacific War, with thrill and speed

A true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a sailor who embarked on a single underworld to uncover the crime of an inhumane international prostitution organization called "Japanese women's smuggling."

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.