When a theater troupe’s master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta…

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman’s husband dies suddenly.

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He’s sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan’s most powerful clan leader. He’s also challenged to…

The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for…

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and…