Nobuko Otowa

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama’s life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, ...

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his ...

A teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled „island closest to heaven“ that her late father had told her about.

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai ...

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring ...

Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a „red lion’s mane“, a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of ...

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling ...

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her ...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband’s illness.