Misako Tanaka

An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers. (imdb)

***Kyouko-san (Miss Kyouko) ***Buchou OL (Manager-OL) [office lady] ***Kinou Kouen (Yesterday at the park) ***Neko ga Ongaeshi (Cat Repays a Favor) ***Kazoku Kaigi (Family Meeting)

Japan’s greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun’s Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coaxed out of retirement to save Shogun Iemitsu from danger. The elderly Hikozaemon has been belittled of late and has seemingly lost the will to live, much less the desire to assert himself and make Iemitsu listen to reason. The plot thickens when a lovely young woman enters the picture. Can she change Hikozaemon’s mind, and thus alter the path of Japanese …

Typical mother, Noguchi Satsuki, spends her days trying to balance her life as a wife to her hard-working husband Kazuhiko and mother to their only son Tomoya, a seemingly withdrawn fifth-grader with whom Satsuki struggles to communicate. Seiko and Ozawa Hideaki, living in the same neighborhood as the Noguchi family, are raising a rebellious junior high school daughter, Mihoko, and their first son, Kiyotaka, a second-grader who is showered with much love and affection by his mother.