Shinichi Himori

Jubilation Street

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand…

Dance of the Capital

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film…

Otoko no iki

This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was st…

A Certain Woman

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a nu…

The Spy Has Not Died Yet

There Was a Father

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither…

Dawn Chorus

Notes of an Itinerant Performer

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a tr…

Ornamental Hairpin

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a …