Kei Kumai

O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, ...

A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the ...

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 group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.

A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.

Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident. He lives with his elderly mother and wife ...

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master’s death.

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

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and ...

Set in Japan’s Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with ...