Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his…
Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their “production”. Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women…
To save her brother and the ancestral house from the heavy burden of an unfulfilled debt, Osan–the noble wife of the parsimonious but reputable scroll-maker, Ishun–turns to her husband's kind-hearted…