Hideko Takamine

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair…

A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They…

A woman looks after her father in law.

An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fat…

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and…

A sequel to Happiness of Us Alone. This story focuses on the troubled life of the couple's adult's…

When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife…

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, In…

After receiving a phone call from a woman whose child has contracted polio, government official Mas…

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years…

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.