Kotobuki Hananomoto

This Transient Life tells the story of the siblings Masao and Yuri who live in a huge estate near Lake Biwa north of Kyoto. Masao refuses to go to university and is infatuated with Buddhist sculptures. Iwashita, a student who lodges at the house, and Ogino, a young priest and former classmate of Masao, are both in love with Masao's beautiful sister Yuri, who rejects all proposals from her parents to marry her off. (midnighteye.com)

It's the story of a maladjusted son of a prostitute. The boy is impotent unless he's stoking a loaded gun while making love. It's easy to see some quirky psychological problems here. But in reality, he's unconsciously reacting against his hatred for Americans, a deeply rooted hostility charged by the victimization of his mother at the hands of hungry soldiers on a military base in Yokota. Eventually the young psycho shoots a black GI and is immediately gunned down by American MPs.

An early short film from the legendary Nagisa Oshima, in the style of a trailer for a feature that doesn't exist.

Yagyu Jubei proves his skills in this early adventure film (The Movie Database)

A painter makes a lover's suicide pact with the wife of his friend, but does not kill himself; letting her die alone. Five years later, his friend remarries a woman who looks exactly like his dead spouse; who haunts the painter's dreams. (imdb)

A drama depicting a girl suffering from prenatal radiation damage caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.