Kaoru Yachigusa

Pastoral: To Die in the Country

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescenc…

Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying h…

The Domain: The Naniwa Story

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The…

Bad Reputation: Invincible Notorious Men

Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy

[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono …

With Beauty and Sorrow

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel …

Samurai Assassin

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakura…

Hello, Baby

A young Tokyo couple’s blissful newlywed life is turned upside down when an unexpected pregnancy arr…

The Human Vapor

A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Huma…