Tadashi Imai

War and Youth

An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the f…

Yuki

Up in Heaven, Yuki’s grandparents decide that, having turned thirteen years old, she must go down to…

A Story from Echigo

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-…

Revenge

An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, l…

Nippon no obaachan

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast abo…

The Harbor Lights

White Cliffs

1960 Toei film.…

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father,…

Night Drum

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return…