Yasuzō Masumura

Ichikawa’s 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic ...

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may ...