Tokuko Watanabe Movies

The daughter of divorced parents lives with her mother in Tokyo. On the weekends, she takes the train to her hometown of Koga, in Ibaraki Prefecture,...

A sex therapist treats various couples who are having problems in bed.

Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the...

Two young delinquent girls survive on the streets by selling themselves as high school students. But the local girl gang catches them working their...

The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep...

Time passes quietly without incident. Shizue lives peacefully as a wife. Masako, who is Shizue's friend and lives in Nagoya, uses Shizue as an alibi...

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and...

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel...

A single woman has a series of messy relationships while feeling that her maternal clock is running out.

Yoshinari Bessho, the feudal lord of Tanba Province, is a collector of butterflies and has his concubines tattooed with butterflies as well. One day...

A daughter returns home to her ailing adopted father. A home that has a violent past, missing money and a tragic misunderstanding.

A woman on her honeymoon sees a girl being sexually assaulted. It brings back memories of her own past trauma. At a resort she is shocked to find the...

Two tough young street hustlers, Keiko and Kaori, challenge a large organization called the Sukeban Mafia that is involved in drug dealing and...

A young woman with an unrequited love for her step brother has their relationship upended when a despondent couple wanders into town.

What was the trauma that turned a demure middle class wife into a slum dwelling whore while the husband is away at work?

Independent scifi film by Izo Hashimoto.