Taiji Tonoyama

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of ...

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone ...

Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans ...

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling ...

Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. ...

A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.

After Japan’s loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold ...

An errant salaryman’s son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who’s reluctant to let the kid board.