Heroic Purgatory (1970)
Heroic Purgatory (1970) An engineer's wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and reality.
Erosu purasu gyakusatsu (1969)
Erosu purasu gyakusatsu (1969) In the 1920s, the anarchist revolutionary Sakae Osugi is financially supported by his wife, journalist Itsuko Masaoka. He spends his time doing nothing but philosophizing about political systems and free love and visiting with his lovers Yasuko and the earlier feminist
Ningen no shômei (1977)
Ningen no shômei (1977) When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police Detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York City. There he is joined by Detective Shuftan, and together they sort out the crime.
Kôge Ichibu: Waremokô no shô (1964)
Kôge Ichibu: Waremokô no shô (1964) AKA The Scent of Incense. After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
Flame and Women (1967)
Flame and Women 1967 A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination, after which she starts nourishing a strong desire for the childs biological father
Spring Dreams (1960)
Spring Dreams (1960) A homeless man falls ill near a wealthy family's home, who take him in and find themselves dealing with his visiting friends.
Akitsu onsen (1962)
Akitsu onsen 1962 The day before Japan announces its defeat in WW2, a very ill Shusaku arrives in Okayama He meets Shinko, an innkeeper, who inadvertently gives him the will to live as he spies her crying one day As romance blossoms, the secret death wish hed brought with him contends with true love
Illusion of Blood (1965)
Illusion of Blood 1965 A samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife
Late Autumn (1960)
Late Autumn 1960 Family and friends of the late Shuzo Miwa have gathered for his annual memorial service, this one marking the seventh anniversary of his passing Three of his long time friends married Shuzo Taguchi, married Soichi Mamiya, and widowed Seiichiro Hirayama have long known and admitted t