Heroic Purgatory (1970)
An engineers wife returns home with a lost teenager A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and rea
Erosu purasu gyakusatsu (1969)
Two interwoven stories The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugis theories
Flame and Women (1967)
A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination, after which she starts nourishing a strong desire for the childs biological father
Ningen no shômei (1977)
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police Detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York City There he is joined by Detective Shuftan, and together they sort out the crime
Illusion of Blood (1965)
A samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife
Spring Dreams (1960)
A homeless man falls ill near a wealthy familys home, who take him in and find themselves dealing with his visiting friends
Akitsu onsen (1962)
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring
Late Autumn (1960)
A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husbands three friends