Tatsuo Matsumura

Takayuki (Takao Osawa) is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet’s syndrome, and will gradually lose his sight. He ...

An appassionato art student and a dispassionate college girl make a vow, saying they would meet each other again in the Florence Cathedral after ...

Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she ...

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise ...

Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikawa, a high school classmate he hasn’t seen in ...

A political satire comedy depicting the turmoil caused when the residents of a small island in Okinawa, feeling neglected by the Japanese ...

Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led ...

Kon Ichikawa’s retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), ...

A close look at the inner workings of Japan’s political underbelly.

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the ...

In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro’s because of his great sword techniques. ...

An auto repairman’s daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man ...

By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domen. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have ...