Masahiro Yamada

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s' students researching Osugi's theories.

Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan after spending a few years studying at the MIT. He's working on a new project involving the creation of laser beams. One day, his wife Nanako, comes back home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, who pretends to be Ayu's father, come to get her back but Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents... (Karagarga)

Before going to university, Kawamura goes on holiday in Europe. In Lissabon he encounters Naoko, who sells furniture and art objects. Kawamura is obsessed by a sketch of a European church he saw in Nagasaki. He came to Europe to see that church with his own eyes. Naoko lost her parents during the bombing of Nagasaki, and tries to forget Japan... A story of attraction and repulsion begins.

The heroine, Ritsuko, is married to Shingo, a design engineer. Shingo is unable to father a child so Ritsuko is artificially inseminated. The birth of a son, Takashi, however, does not help marital relations between husband and wife. When Sakaguchi, a doctor having marital problems with his wife, Shina, is revealed as the sperm donor, Ritsuko develops a passion for the doctor.

The film serves as a tribute to those that lost their lives during the air raid on the Toyokawa Naval Arsenal on August 7, 1945. (ADC)

The lives of three movie actresses unfold, transform and get exposed. Each of them owes their choice of profession to a respective traumatic event. (imdb)

Oscar François de Jarjayes is a French girl raised as a man to become her father's successor as leader of the Palace Guards. A brilliant combatant with a strong sense of justice, Oscar is proud of the life she leads, but becomes torn between class loyalty and her desire to help the impoverished as the French Revolution brews among the oppressed lower class. (en.wikipedia.org)

A brilliant collection of beautifully animated episodes based on selected masterpieces of Japanese modern literature. Compliation of short romantic stories from the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. The aim of this series is to appeal to the viewer at large and to give him or her some idea of the variety and individuality which Japanese literature has developed over the last hundred years. (myanimelist.net)