Yumiko abandons her life as a geisha in Tokyo, returning to her provincial hometown. She embraces her freedom, but winds up collapsed on a riverbank. There, she is found by Koji, a bartender. They begin a simple life together, but one day Yumiko is seized by a wild impulse...
Noe Tawara
Yumiko
Hideo Masunaga
Koji
Jungo Hanayagi
Yoshino
Yosuke Nohara
Kawano
Hisae Kawakami
Mitsue
Yumiko abandons her life as a geisha in Tokyo, returning to her provincial hometown. She embraces her freedom, but winds up collapsed on a riverbank. There, she is found by Koji, a bartender. They begin a simple life together, but one day Yumiko is seized by a wild impulse...
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they discover they both have a score to settle with a particular crooked cop. However, Nami has doubts about ever trusting a man.
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. However, her younger sister opposes this, thinking that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them.
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
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.
A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team