Shinji Sômai

Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.

A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in ...

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his ...

In Somai’s final film, an alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he’s ...

A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes ...

The movie takes place in the five-day period before, during and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which five of the students ...