Sawako Ariyoshi

Fushin no Toki

Suspense TV movie adaptation of an original story by Sawako Ariyoshi, starring Yukiyo Toake.

Sanbaba

A story about being scared of getting old.

The Twilight Years

A woman looks after her father in law.

The Time of Reckoning

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments

The Kii River

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

The Scent of Incense

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.