In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses,…

A college student has an affair with a married, middle-aged teacher.

Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. Together they find the passion no…

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims’ families.

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku’s iconoclastic New Wave. At the height of student protests, Shimojo takes his…

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their…