Makoto Kobori

Bot-chan

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Jubilation Street

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Marital Relations

​Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named Choko. This betrayal leads his father to disown him, leaving the unskilled Ryukichi with no way to earn a living. To keep them afloat, Choko is forced to continue working as a geisha while secretly scraping together a nest egg to start their own business. However, Ryukichi remains trapped in his hedonistic lifestyle, eventually squandering Choko’s hard-earned savings on his own self-indulgence.

Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood

The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.

Rinchi

Japanese noir.

新遊侠伝

新遊侠伝　遊侠往来

Koina no Ginpei

1954 Japanese movie

Theater

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.