Kazuo Kitamura

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.

Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run.

Though it has been five years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Yasuko, her uncle and aunt are forced to deal with the ordeals of the disaster, along with many others like them.

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

Life story of a woman born in poverty trying to succeed. Through her many schemes, she faces her ups and downs in a cyclical nature, fueled mostly by self-interest.

After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.

An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.

A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar.

A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.

The loves and tragedies of a geisha in 1933 Japan.

A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination, after which she starts nourishing a strong desire for the child's biological father.