Ayako Kobayashi

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class “untouchables,” leaving his ...

Noushin is a single mother who lives by her girl alone and has a peaceful life but when a foreign guy enters their life everything changes for ...

Japan in 1910, industrialization is unstoppable and devastating entire areas in the name of progress. In X, a farming village in Ibaraki ...

Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the ...

A young girl named Oshin is sent to work for another family, because of her own family’s financial condition. Nevertheless, the young girl ...

Chiyo, a 59 year old mother of 4, had lost her husband seven years ago. She will soon lose her home so she is offered by her eldest son, Ryoichi ...

Tatsumura Yusuke, Toho Advertising’s deputy sales manager was a childhood friend of Akiko and Katsuya. In fact, there is a secret that ...

A chance encounter on the road leads to the unusual need for a female bodyguard to protect the granddaughter of an old friend of Akiyama Kohei, a ...

Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young ...

Edo is rocked by the news that a duel to the death is to be held at Takadanobaba, the famed site of a bloody revenge fought by Nakayama Yasubei, ...

Master swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when he meets an elderly fencing instructor who ...

The samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered his father to justice. In the course of their ...

Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) ...

Looking for a change from city girls, legendary gigolo Jin Kaito heads to the beach town of Shōnan in search of sun, sea, and summer romance. He ...

After the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent Saki Asamiya name to return to her normal life, and ...

Oshin comes from a family of poor rice farmers. Her father and brother must work in the fields and her grandmother and mother, who is expecting ...

This story is based on the novel “Jo no mai” by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the ...