In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple,…
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl…
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning “ghost story,” this anthology adapts four…
Learning of his family’s collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of…
Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the “other woman”…
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajir falls in love with an inn manager as New Year’s approaches.
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule,…
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with…
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria.…
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered…