Tsutomu Tamura

Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Berlin to study in the 1880s and falls in love with a German ballet dancer.

Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cousin.

昭和20年9月。淡路島の国民学校。敗戦によって、この学校でも軍国教育から民主主義教育に変わり、子どもたちにも少なからず戸惑いが生じる。5年男組の担任の駒子先生は新婚直後に夫・正夫が戦死、嫁ぎ先の家に留まるべきか悩んでいた。

Outside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their story is of revenge, tragedy, and the power of real love. A classical tale which translates wonderfully to film.

森本英介は、五年間も東京で浪人暮しをしており、郷里で病院を経営する父とは、裏口入学のことでモメて以来、音信がない。ある夜、鎌倉で、英介は暴走族のリーダーと喧嘩になり、海に潜って、先に顔を上げた方が敗けという勝負をした。翌日、英介は予備校で有島佳という女の子に声をかけられる。彼女は昨夜の一部始終を見ており、一緒にいた桑田敦夫と、英介の真似をして、心中と間違えられたという。いきなり話しかけられてとまどう英介は、ホテルのボーイをしながら予備校に通っていることを彼女に話す。佳は、この夏、釧路から夏期講習を受けるために上京し、姉・悠のところに居候していた。桑田は同じ予備校に通う二浪の男だ。ところで、佳は心中ごっこのとき、死と隣り合わせの瞬間に、このうえもない喜悦を感じたことで英介に興味を持ったのだ。そして、佳と桑田は英介のバイトするホテルで心中未遂を起こしてしまう。二人の収容されている病院に見舞いに行った英介は、そこで、佳の姉の悠と出会う。悠は小学校の給食をつくる仕事をしている。暫くして、悠は、ホテルの一件以来、自分のところから離れていた佳に、ロタ島行きのキップを渡してくれと英介に話す。それは、桑田から佳を離そうとする悠の心づかいだった。しかし、佳はキップを受け取ろうとせず、英介は悠と一緒にロタ島に行った。二人は旅を満喫する。旅から帰り、ホテルでバイトをしていた英介は、学会で上京していた父と出会った。父は学会の開かれる箱根のホテルで話し合おうと話すが、英介は憎しみしか覚えなかった。その頃、経済的に行きづまった佳と桑田が、英介に助けを求めてきた。英介は、二人を父の名で、箱根のホテルに泊まらせることにした。翌日、英介は箱根の警察から連絡を受けた。箱根のホテルにいた佳と桑田の死の知らせであった。心中ごっこが本当の心中になるとは……。鋭い衝撃が英介を襲った。夏の終り、鎌倉の海に英介と悠の姿があった。二人は佳と桑田の行為を語りながら、自分たちが、別々の道を歩みはじめたことを感じていた。そして今、英介は自分のとまどいの季節が終ったことを意識しながら……。

厳格な両親のもと、溺愛されて育った22歳の青年、斉木順。親に与えられたスナックの経営を始めるが、ある日、両親にスナックで手伝いをしている幼なじみのケイ子と別れるよう迫られる。口論の末、父親を殺してしまい、さらには行き違いから母親までも刺し殺してしまう…。

Sunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because it tears up old wounds in complicated relationships, some of which date back to the horrors of war.

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.

A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father believes he is an invalid. He and his wife have a 10-year-old boy and another, younger boy. The adults pretend to be injured by autos in crowded traffic, blackmailing the fearful motorists with threats to call in the police.

This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story.

Ex-jazz pianist turned promoter finds he is successful, but empty. When an entrepreneur sends him to Moscow with a jazz combo, he falls in with the dissident youth of the city, and again finds life empty.

物語は死刑囚・韓国人少年Rの絞死刑が失敗したところから始まる。Rは死刑執行失敗のショックで心神喪失状態に陥ってしまう。その状態では刑の再執行は許されないため、Rの判断能力を取り戻させようと、死刑執行人たちが四苦八苦する姿がブラック・ユーモア風に描かれていく。執行人たちはRの家庭環境や彼の犯罪を芝居で再現して見せる。その混沌とする事実と虚構が、事件の真相や日本国家に内在する矛盾、問題点をあらわにしていく。

Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by artificial insemination.

男を求めてさまようネジ子は、路上で男と出会い海岸へ行く。しかし男は自殺願望があり、ネジ子を抱こうとはしなかった。そこへ制服姿の男たちが現れ、武器の入った箱を運び出すところを、ネジ子たちは目撃してしまう。二人は男たちに連れ去られ、郊外の廃墟であるアジトに監禁される。アジトにはヤクザの出入りのために雇われた男たちがいたが、出入りは中止になり、ヤクザはいなくなってしまった。

As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After her mother passes away, she finds herself in an unhappy, loveless marriage and begins to understand her mother’s actions.

Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the bank and offers them to him to make a new start. He refuses at first but eventually agrees and so she goes back to school to tell her teacher that she has decided not to continue college, that she is young and strong, and can make her own way in life.

As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and lived with friends. They were like children of wolves. By chance, they were found by and became a members of a yakuza family. Five years later, Take dominated the port town as a young boss.

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event creates increasing discord and agony for her and her loved ones.

A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.

A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. He falls under the wing of Kyoko, an older student whose heart is touched after Masuo sells his pigeons to her. However, after his scam is revealed, can these feelings truly remain the same?