Writing
Japanese screenwriter.
A group of four friends and lovers in their forties recall their past intimacies while trying to build new ones.
A Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of ronin who are wrapped up in a clan war over local prostitution.
Second part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)
A semi-autobiographical semi-documentary about the career of real life J-pop singer Runa Takamura and the men in her life.
In the early Shōwa era, university student Gōji Murata boards with the Itō family, old friends of his late father. One day, the family's daughter Tomiko catches him reading an erotic book. Rather than being shocked, she’s intrigued, and soon gives herself to him. That night, her older sister Kyōko, having learned what happened, quietly slips into Gōji’s room..."
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Sugawara tries to overcome a traumatic experience of getting in bed blindfolded with a girl who turned out to be an old granny. Later he and Kawaji try to settle down in a neighbourhood harassed by businessman yakuza Bin Amatsu.
A wife works two jobs to support her husband who is cheating on her.