Yoshiko Kuga Movies

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei.

The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir. Kozaburo Yoshimura), is a little girl who...

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to...

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...

Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but...

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes...

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the...

A childless lawyer and his wife take in the quiet daughter of an imprisoned client, whose presence eventually creates romantic tension with the...

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their...

Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post...

Fumie Namura is an ambitious high school graduate, who’s encouraged by her teacher Mr. Kōda to apply for university. Due to her...

A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.

A romantic drama depicting the lives of two generations of a family who run a Tokyo florist shop.

University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of...

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.