Setsuko Hara

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a ...

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an ...

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former ...

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor’s son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but ...

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

A husband and wife’s pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their ...

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the ...

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry — that is, until her aunt Masa ...

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own ...