When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police Detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York City There he is joined by Detective Shuftan, and together they sort out the crime
A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husbands three friends
A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo
A homeless man falls ill near a wealthy familys home, who take him in and find themselves dealing with his visiting friends
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring
A samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife
Musashi Miyamoto is challenged to a duel by a confident swordsman Sasaki Kojiro He agrees to fight him in a years time
Two interwoven stories The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugis theories
An engineers wife returns home with a lost teenager A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, f
Depicts the early life of the legendary warrior Musashi Miyamoto his years as an aspiring warrior, an outlaw and finally a true samurai
A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination, after which she starts nourishing a strong desire for the childs biological father
Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel