Kaneko Iwasaki

As a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.

A samurai with a high skill in chess makes friends with Zatoichi, who finds that things become peculiar in his presence.

A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandak...

A university student Hitomi falls in love with a middle-aged man Okawa, who was the lover of her deceased mother. Hitomi's feelings shift back and forth as she is not sure whether it is true love or just a realization of her mothe...