Tabi no omosa / Journey Into Solitude (1972)
Drama
A 16-year-old girl grows into maturity while hiking the 88-temple pilgrimage around Shikoku.
Starring: Yôko Takahashi, Kyôko Kishida, Hideo Sunazuka, Rie Yokoyama, Kana Nakagawa, Toshihiko Yamamoto
Director: Kôichi Saitô
For My Daughter's 7th Birthday / Kono ko no nanatsu no oiwai ni (1982)
Mystery
The palmist "blue-moth (Seiga)" is rumored to manipulate the Japanese political and business from behind. Journalist Omoda had inquired into the "blue-moth" but is killed. Sudo who is Omoda's juniors of the newspaper he used to be in took over Omoda's work.
Starring: Shima Iwashita, Jinpachi Nezu, Kyôko Kishida
Director: Yasuzô Masumura
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer / Ningen no joken V-VI / Ningen no jôken (1961)
Drama | History | War
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.
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura, Yûsuke Kawazu, Chishû Ryû, Kyôko Kishida
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Woman in the Dunes / Suna no onna (1964)
Drama | Thriller
Jumpei Niki, a Tokyo based entomologist and educator, is in a poor seaside village collecting specimens of sand insects. As it is late in the day and as he has missed the last bus back to the city, some of the local villagers suggest that he spend the night there, they offering to find him a place to stay. That place is the home of a young woman, whose house is located at the bottom of a sand pit accessible only by ladder. He later learns that the woman's husband and child died in a sandstorm, their undiscovered bodies buried somewhere near the house. The next morning as he tries to leave, he finds that the ladder is gone – he realizing that the ladder he climbed down was a rope ladder which is anchored above the pit – meaning that he is trapped with the young woman as the walls of the pit are sand with no grip. He also realizes that this entrapment was the villagers and the young woman's plan for him to stay there permanently to be her helper in the never-ending task of digging out the sand, which if not done will swallow them alive. They are dependent upon the villagers to help remove the sand, but also for their rations including water. He learns that the sand is the young woman's life, and that she knows or wants no other life. Thus, it is no use either to blackmail or kill her as she is willing to live and die by this life, and as such he will surely die if she is dead. His life tasks become to figure out a way to escape while co-exist with the woman in what he considers their prison. As time goes on, he also learns that there are other tasks which will consume him.
Starring: Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Hiroko Itô
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
