Nobuko Otowa

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

1980 Japanese film.

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ginko, a poor cobbler’s daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love ...

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of ...

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

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband’s dead body, fighting government ...