


A romance between a female student and a young professor, where friendship, temptation, and jealousy intertwine.


Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.



In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his once happier past and the events that destroyed everyone he held dear.



A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.



A melodrama centered on adolescent high school students that depicts the secrets and joys and sorrows known only to them.
