Ichirô Sugai

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its ...

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 ...

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

Noriko lives in postwar Tokyo with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her friends, her more traditionally minded family ...

A woman’s struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party ...

Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many ...

The stories of several young women who work in a ‘precision optical instruments’ factory during the second World War. Despite ...

The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new ...