Eitarô Shindô

The personal tales of various sex workers who occupy a Japanese brothel.

A young samurai, Shojuro Sako, travels on the Tokaido to Edo with his two servants, Genta and Gonpachi. Gonpachi has been told by Shojuro’s ...

In 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the best ...

Yukiko’s fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients ...

In medieval Japan a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up ...

Follows a woman’s fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of the society.

Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides ...

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to ...

A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt ...

Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father’s debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.