Sachiko Hidari Movies

An anthology film featuring five stories about women of different nationalities – French, German, American, Japanese, and Swedish. Each of them...

Follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and...

Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by...

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

Won Jury's Special Award at the Turin International Film Festival of Young Cinema 1993

First live action adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa's manga.

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...

Yasue (Todoroki) and Fumikichi (Oda), a married couple, have no children, but they take in children from other places and wind up raising three kids.

A unique literary work depicting the crisis in the love and physical relationship of the ordinary Shimura couple.

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

A poignant entertainment epic about a righteous mountain man, a young company director with new ideals, and a beautiful woman with wild charm, whose...

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress...

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.