Yoshiko Mita . He has won an Japan Academy Prize. He's known for Brutal Tales of Chivalry (1965), Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963) and The Go Masters (1982).
Director Yoshimitsu Morita is directing Shiho Tanimura's book adaptation, Umineko ("Sea Cat"). Set in a northern coastal town, the film revolves around a fisherman's wife who is attracted to her brother. While she at the same time...
There's a woman. She has a mother. The mother wants her daughter to marry. The mother wants her to arrange her marriage to a wealthy and successful son-in-law. The daughter is not interested. The daughter asks a coworker to preten...
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan's most powerful warlord, unifying the country. Rikyu, through the tea cer...
University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has leukaemia and has only 6 months to live. So the mother entreats Akira to be her sp...
The film tells in a very poetic way the life of Wenceslau de Moraes, an officer of the Portuguese Marine Corps who traveled to Japan and fell in love of its culture and its visions of life and hereafter.
Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely described as an Asian version of chess). It soon becomes evident that the Chines...
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage ...
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