Set shortly after Japan's defeat in WWII, "Pandora no hako" follows a young man named Risuke (Shota Sometani) who has contracted tuberculosis. He travels to the countryside to a unique...
A young girl named Oshin is sent to work for another family, because of her own family's financial condition. Nevertheless, the young girl lives strongly. (Source: AsianWiki)
A Korean kamikaze pilot dies in a suicide attack, but his two Japanese comrades survive the war when one returns due to engine problems and the other makes a forced...
In the spring of 1983 (Showa 58), Tanokura Shin, the elderly founder of a supermarket chain in Mie Prefecture, mysteriously disappeared on the day of her 17th store's grand opening....
The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowners son, who has returned from the war with a crippling injury,...
The 22nd NHK Taiga Drama is Sanga Moyu. The three Amaba brothers are second-generation Japanese Americans, whose allegiances are torn by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Determined to show his...
