Haruko Sugimura

A Last Note

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters w…

The Petrified Forest

Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood frie…

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and …

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine…

With Beauty and Sorrow

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel …

Samurai Assassin

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakura…

Night Scandal

The Scent of Incense

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth…

Youth After School

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develo…