Yuki Saitô

The story of a young girl’s first love is told from the heroine’s point of view. Surrounded by various people, she finally begins to awaken to her own feelings as a woman.Read More »

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When 22-year-old Ikuko gets fired from her editing internship right before her college graduation instead of getting hired, she turns to her schoolteacher father for advice. Instead, he tells her, “I’ve decided to become a singer! Sort your own life out!” Confused, Ikuko gets on a boat to the town of Takarazuka, home of the musical industry, to see her classmate Mari. Mari introduces her to an accountant named Yoshie, and together the three of them move into a house they call “The Women’s House: Die Fraulein”Read More »

Plot: The story of a young girl’s first love is told from the heroine’s point of view. Surrounded by various people, she finally begins to awaken to her own feelings as a woman.Read More »

Early days of the Japanese television broadcasting, through the eyes of an ingenue who is trained as a contract actress.Read More »

Oracion is a racehorse purchased by a businessman in financial trouble. He believes the horse will win the upcoming Japan Derby and solve his monetary woes.Read More »

It depicts a unique parent-child love through the appearance of a father and daughter reuniting for the first time in 15 years. A theatrical version of the tele feature aired on Nippon Television in 1988. The screenplay was co-written by Rio Kishida and Yo Saiki of “Prosperity of Vice.” The director is Nobuhiko Obayashi of “Futari”. The cinematographer is Yoshinao Sakamoto of “BEST GUY”.Read More »

Kinema Jumpo “Best movie”-winner of 2000.

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Veteran director Shinji Somai lensed this heart-warming family drama about a shabby looking coot claiming to be the father of an elite salaryman. Hiroshi Nirasaki (Koichi Sato) is a securities broker desperately trying to keep the fact that his company is about to go belly-up from his high-strung upper-class wife (Yuki Saito). One day, while walking home from a particularly bad day at work, he gets accosted by an old bum (Tsutomu Yamazaki) who demands to be taken in by his son. Though his mother told him that his dad died when he was born, the drunken geezer knows enough about him and his short order cook mother (Sumiko Fuji) that he is almost convinced. Read More »

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The story deals with a young girl getting adopted by a family that holds her like a slave and then being “freed” by a young man working for this family´s company. 10 years later she gets involved in the murder of one of her step-sisters.Read More »