Sumiko Hidaka

A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on the horizon after he becomes ...

Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed ...

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century ...