Home from the Sea (1972)
Home from the Sea (1972) On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. They cherish the deepest affection for this piece of land they call home, and the simple life they lead. But rapid industrial growth makes it all
Pitfall (1962)
Pitfall 1962 A documentary fantasy Penniless miners talk in passing about labor unions A miner and his young son go to a village in Kyushu where the miner has been told hell find work, but its a ghost town, save for one woman The miner leaves and is followed by a man in a white suit and white gloves
Cash Calls Hell (1966)
Cash Calls Hell (1966) Fresh out of prison, a broken man reluctantly takes a job to kill three men, but changes his mind when some gangsters target the same men. He then tries to find out why the men are being targeted in the first place.
Rhapsody in August (1991)
Rhapsody in August 1991 An elderly woman living in Nagasaki Japan takes care of her four grandchildren for their summer vacation They learn about the atomic bomb that fell in 1945, and how it killed their grandfather
Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978)
Double Suicide of Sonezaki 1978 A rich merchant gives his clerk an I O U instead of wages When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him
Sensou to seishun (1991)
An auto repairmans daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent Finally the man opens up, and the girl is able to piece together her aunts tragic story