Chōichirō Kawarasaki

A journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake recalls a boat trip he took as a boy after WWII…

Crippled Kabuki player Tonbo is taken in by a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential…

The story of a bus conductor who dedicates his life to the cherished Japanese symbol.

A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a…

Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agen…

A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of sedu…

An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity ab…

An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the…

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A city boy, Shinji, is sent to live in the countryside to escape the Tokyo bombings, where he exper…

Romance story about the first female manager of the Nihon University Phoenix

This 1989 drama is an adaptation of Natsuki Ikezawa's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel. It depicts the…