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 life.

The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.

Japanese noir.

1954 Japanese movie

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

1947 Japanese movie

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.