Takahiro Tamura

Sleeping Man

Admin — Sat, 03 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji’s slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.

Muddy River

Admin — Fri, 30 Jan 1981 00:00:00 +0000

Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.

Empire of Passion

Admin — Mon, 09 Oct 1978 00:00:00 +0000

A young man has an affair with an older woman. He is very jealous of her husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the husband had plenty of sake to drink and was in bed, they strangle him and dump his body down a well. To avert any suspicions, she pretends her husband has gone off to Tokyo to work. For three years the wife and her lover secretly see each other. Finally, suspicions become very strong and people begin to gossip. To make matters worse, her husband’s ghost begins to haunt her and the law arrives to investigate her husband’s disappearance.

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Admin — Mon, 26 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. “Tora! Tora! Tora!”, named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

The Great White Tower

Admin — Sat, 15 Oct 1966 00:00:00 +0000

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.

The River Fuefuki

Admin — Wed, 19 Oct 1960 00:00:00 +0000

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.

Times of Joy and Sorrow

Admin — Tue, 01 Oct 1957 00:00:00 +0000

The story of the trials and tribulations of lighthouse keeper Keiji Sada and his wife Hideko Takamine.

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

Admin — Tue, 29 Nov 1955 00:00:00 +0000

Now an old man, Masao returns to his childhood home and begins to recall his upbringing in this abandoned sector of Japan.