Yukiyo Toake

Based on a novel by Tomiko Miyao (Kai, Kura, Midwinter Camellia). A woman’s love is tested as she faces betrayal.Read More »

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THE BOY SEES THE FATE OF MEN. THE GIRL KNOWS HOW WOMEN’S LIVES ARE.

During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family’s situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.Read More »

A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.Read More »

Kiwa is Iwago’s devoted wife. A former wrestling champion, he has become a ‘zegen’ : He buys young girls from poor families to sell them to geisha houses. He is quite successful but Kiwa, though she accepts his money, loathes his work. One day Iwago comes back with a young girl he’s bought from a man who wanted to sell her in China. They adopt her and she raises her, as a respectable girl, with her two sons. But Iwago wants to manage the career of a singer who becomes his mistress and the situation becomes very tense in the couple. This is the third and last adaptation of Tomiko Miyao (mostly autobiographical) novels about the world of prostitution and yakuzas in Kochi by Gosha.Read More »

Zatoichi returns to his home village for the first time in over ten years to find much has changed and that corruption abounds.Read More »