Teiji Takahashi

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.

Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow, does what she can to keep her daughter Utako and son Seiichi safe, fed, and sheltered. By 1953, it's clear that the children, as they enter adulthood,...