丰市在一次煤矿事故中因瓦斯中毒造成精神残疾，必须依靠母亲伊佐和妻子光枝的照料。母亲全心全意地照顾他；妻子也付出了很大的心血，却因长期的精神折磨和独处的孤寂而有了外遇。一天，“和泉教会”的巡礼团来到了山村，据说其教会宗旨是将患者的病患引于自身，再复归寺中洁身修行。端庄秀丽的第68代“和泉教会”教首智修尼出现在丰市的面前，丰市为其浑身洋溢的神奇魅力所吸引，在母亲的陪同下来到教会本院。在佛堂内丰市与智修尼发生了肉体关系，瞬息之间丰市痊愈恢复了常人之态。而当丰市的妻子接到母亲的喜讯赶至本院时，丰市却因真心的求爱遭到智修尼的拒绝而重新陷入病态。母亲让已有身孕的儿媳带丰市下山去建立新的家庭，自己却留在了山上，决心终生为儿子祈祷。

1981 film

A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.

The relationship between Tetsuro, a university student from a disgraced, burdened family, and Shino, a waitress supporting her impoverished relatives. The couple decides to marry despite the significant emotional and social hardships each faces, viewing their love as a means to overcome the shame and despair inherited from their pasts.

これは歴史的事実によって編纂の悲壮な物語。映画の中の描く物語は今から四百年前の日本の堺市、大阪など。十六世紀こそ日本群雄割拠、打ち続く戦争の「戦国時代」。当時の最有力武将豊臣秀吉は野心満々の人、彼は織田信長の後に続いて進めている日本を統一したために。

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A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncovers a black market scheme involving counterfeit money, murder, and conspiracy.

Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land development, they are ultimately unsuccessful.

film directed by Kei Kumai

A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer of 1994 to find himself the prime suspect in the biggest mass-murder case of the decade.

O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.

Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsutomu manages to have his way with her. Coming from a broken home, he is frightened by love, so he cruelly allows her to wake up alone. A month passes and a more grown-up Tsutomu returns. The lovers joyously reunite and move in together. All is blissful until both notice a strange sore on Mitsu's arm. The doctors diagnose it as leprosy. Without telling Tsutomu, Mitsu checks into a leper sanitarium. Hanging out with society's pariahs gives her much insight. She discovers the old lepers to be wonderful people. In turn, Mitsu becomes their source of joy and renewed hope. Still, she misses her Tsutomu. One day, the doctors inform her that they erred and that the sore is not leprosy. Happily she heads back to her true love until she realizes with a guilty pang that to return to him would mean unhappiness for her newfound friends

1995 film by Kei Kumai

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.

1989 film by Kei Kumai

Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American air crew.

1974 film by Kei Kumai