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The classic tale of Gegege no Kitaro told yet again. The story is the usual in the Gegege no Kitaro series. Kitaro is a boy living in the Gegege Forest/Cemetery (lands where many Yokai roam) with his mostly dead father (who survives only in his eye), Sunakake Babaa, NekoMusume, and Konaki Jiji. One difference between this Kitaro and all of the others that came before him, is that this one has brown hair instead of the standard grayish silver.
Cackling Kitarou

Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The series follows the life of Shin Tanokura during the Meiji period up to the early 1980s. Shin was called "Oshin", which is an archaic Japanese cognomen.
Oshin

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...
Professional Killers

The story follows the Nakamori family in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, where half of the year is buried by deep snow.
Mansaku no hana

An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The situation snowballs out of control, leading to a deadly duel and political fallout which threatens the entire clan. Declared mentally unstable by the corrupt authority, Shinpachi begins his descent into true insanity…
Revenge

Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes true. When she learns of the trouble Yukichi's business is facing, she stands ready to come to his aid, and thus repay a debt that's long overdue.
A Lively Geisha

Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post-war period in Japan.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a geisha at night She sees her future as an entertainer, not a prostitute, & she expects a happy marriage with a medical student, Yasuke (Katsuo Nakamura), a sweet fellow she deeply loves. but things started to getting worse for Tamiko and she's forced to become the mistress of the disgusting Tsukada (Seiji Miyaguchi).
Raised in a Palace

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Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte

The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period, and the hurricane-like inner side of his life.
Evil Spirits in the Darkness

Kanae is a young wife who has sexual tendencies that she cannot tell her middle-aged husband. Meanwhile, her husband visits members-only happening bar with his manager, Sato, despite having problems at work. Masashi unknowingly makes Sato's favorite girl, Amon, into his emotional refuge. One day, her husband suddenly quit his job and ran away from home. Kanae follows his whereabouts and ends up at Amon's shop...
Kanjiru wakazuma no amai mitsu

Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
Edo Crime Book: Black Claws

A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island.
Okinawa
Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.
Have Wings on Your Heart

This is a story about the emotional connection between a young man with no clear purpose and a middle-aged man who abandoned his wife, children, and hometown but is hiding his pain inside.
Friendship

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Look Up, Noble One

Fourth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 4 - The Yokai Blood-stained Comb

Hiro-chan, a girl celebrating her sixth birthday, visits her neighborhood Laughing Jizo statue. At that moment, on August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb detonates over the city of Hiroshima
Okori-jizō

A girl living with her grandma in the countryside has a strange dream. When she goes to school the next day, she finds out everybody else had the same dream.