Kimiko Ito

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

A younger sister helps out in her older sister’s barber shop where the customers get a little too frisky. As the younger sister fends off advances from her brother-in-law the older sister has a rather strange and kinky encounter with the cooking show host she idolizes.

A woman marries the fiancé of her late sister but begins to have doubts when he starts to get overly friendly with a former classmate.

Iori, taken from an orphanage by a family for domestic work, runs away and is adopted and raised by two young men. Ten years later, she crosses paths with her former step-sister, who is soon poisoned to death, Iori being the prime suspect.

A mother discovers that her 14-year-old daughter Yumi has leukemia and only six months to live. She decides to keep the information secret and pushes her past tutor Akira, now a university student, to reconnect with her.

In the early Showa period, a young woman named Asako drifts into a certain red light district. She appears in a white dress, straw hat, and white parasol, which is out of place in this area, but what kind of past does she have, and what are her feelings as she drifts there?

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath.

The "lowly ronin" meets a child who is being chased by men that killed his father before his eyes. Feeling indebted to the child for buying him dinner, the Ronin takes the child back to his village. There, the Ronin reluctantly gets involved in a pathetic revolt by the cowardly villagers against their tyrannical governor. Mifune at his best!