Shinji Tanaka

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are ...

Now an old man, Masao returns to his childhood home and begins to recall his upbringing in this abandoned sector of Japan.

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.