Shinobugawa (1972)
Shinobugawa depicts the emerging love of a student, identified only as I, for a young waitress named Shino
Aisuru (1997)
Two young people meet by chance and fall in love but the woman is diagnosed with leprosy and sent away to a remote mountain sanitorium
Brothel No 8 (1974)
A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandak
Willful Murder (1981)
In 1949, Mr Shimoyama, governor of Japan National Railroads, was found dead, run by train, after a mysterious disappearance Officially it was considered suicide, but many suspected he was killed for some political conspiracy