Teruko Kishi

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how ...

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his ...

Ichikawa’s 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic ...

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.