Masaharu Kokaji

Sing, Young People

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

The Izu Dancer

Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.

Only She Knows

A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event creates increasing discord and agony for her and her loved ones.

Shisha to no kekkon

A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.

Red Pants

A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko, another diver, as a rash act. Her attitude, however, is nothing but a cloak to hide her affection for him. Shinji, hard working and manly, becomes the focus of many yearning eyes and Seikichi, the boss' son, picks a quarrel with him and violent fight ensues in which Shinji kills a man in self-defense.

The Snow Flurry

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

The Eternal Rainbow

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.

The Ballad of Narayama

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?

I Will Buy You

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

Twenty-Four Eyes

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.