Elegy of a Geisha
1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".
1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".
Miyuki Takakura
Otsuta
Shigeru Amachi
Hayase Chikara
Takamaru Sasaki
Sakai Shunzo
Kōtarō Bandō
Yōko Mihara
Noriko Kitazawa
Taeko
Kikuko Hanaoka
Fumiko Miyata
Kin
Junko Uozumi
Ocho
1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".
A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life.
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to rescue her.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.