Movies: Jitsuko Yoshimura

From the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated, loving and giving mother, who would sacrifice her own life, and sometimes the life of others, for her loved ones. In the autumn of 1955, a family of five chil...

An old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII....

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours ...

If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to try. Then...

Thirty years after graduation, a man and a woman meet again at an alumni reunion. They are no longer young, but the moment she sees him, memories of her first love are revived. Her love for him has never faded even though she married another man and ...

1965 Nikkatsu youth film....

A young couple go on the run after the murder of his mother....

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A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress....

The last judgment....

The main character is Isamu (Hideaki Machida), a sixth grader . Isamu lost his mother in a car accident when he was young. He couldn't forget that, and he couldn't forgive people who didn't follow traffic rules. Today too, Isamu keeps the yellow fla...

2000 Japanese movie...