Tomoko Otakara

A Samurai Chronicle — A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.

Madadayo — In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion

Rhapsody in August — An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing

Tulips in October — Detective Ushio is called in to the murder of an elite heart surgeon, who was stabbed twice at a cluster of vending mach

The Guard from Underground — A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.