Yôko Umemura

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 ...

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

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

Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful, ...