Chi wa kawaiteru (1960)
An insurance company employee threatens suicide after a massive layoff is announced by the management The company takes advantage of his threat by turning it into an advertising campaign
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
Wuthering Heights (1988)
A retelling of Emily Brontes tale of vengeance and obsessive love, set in medieval Japan
Akitsu onsen (1962)
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring