Akira Ishihama

A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. ...

Aging samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo arrives at the home of Kageyu Saito and asks to commit a ritual suicide on the property, which Saito thinks is a ...

A Japanese pacifist and socialist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise ...

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to an invalid girl whom he can only see from afar.