Kyôko Kishida

A drama of two aging women who live a solitary life collecting discarded items from a nearby town. One day they return home to find a young girl ...

When Tetsuya (Yosuke Kubozuka) was 10-years-old he met Emi (Meisa Kuroki), who suffered from a heart disease. In hopes to cure Emi’s ...

A sheltered aristocratic woman in feudal Japan, bored and unfamiliar with the world outside her estate, passes the time copying a special ...

2004 film

Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 ...

In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as ...

Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a ...

Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe ...

Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force – the Shinsengumi – at the end of the Edo period.

Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, ...

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.

Sequel to the 1995 film Haunted School aka Gakkou no Kaidan. Similar to the first, in that it’s about a group of youngsters that get stuck ...

Thief Yaheiji (Keizo Kanie) helped a dying young samurai (Hiroaki Murakami), after recovering, he lost his memory and returned to Edo under the ...

Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.

Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while studying abroad in Japan. Ben is unmotivated to ...

On her fifteenth birthday the princess finds a diary written by her mother when she was young. The diary tells of the Queen’s secret, early ...

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi ...

Based on the folk tales “Repayment from a crane”. One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and ...

Two poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they pry open an alien cocoon to greet their new daughter.

A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owner of ...

The Gotokuji family has a colossal amount of money. Yuri is a paid housekeeper and sent to this family. While working at the house, she finds a ...

A 30-year-old man’s life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man.

Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed ...

This is the first part of an omnibus TV drama special production starring three popular idols at that time, namely Nakayama Miho, Oginome Yoko, ...

Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave ...

Based on the comic book of the same name by Youko Shouji

A private detective and a college student find themselves in hot water while investigating the murder of a night club owner.

Also known as: For My Daughter’s 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for ...