Sachiko Murase Movies

An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and...

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

Two sculptors spend the night in a mountain lodge after being caught in a snowstorm. A female spirit appears and takes the life of one of the men....

A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

A pioneer farmer's stubborn dream of building Japan's greatest ranch is put to the test when a leisure resort company sets its sights on his...

Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names,...

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he...

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after...

A wealthy young man, engaged through family arrangement, meets a humble shop girl after she finds his lost ring. Their growing affection challenges...

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up...

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...