Kazuko Okada

In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko,…

Depicting the lives and spirit of geisha during and after the war.

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to ha…

In the early 18th-century, Lord Takumi-no-kami Asano, feuding with Lord Kira, tries to kill his opp…

Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.