A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8.
The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers ...
Takeo (Kiniya), son of a wealthy car industry executive, is unhappy with his job and goes to Singapore to become a fisherman. At first ridiculed by the local fishermen, he eventually gets ...
Shinobugawa depicts the emerging love of a student, identified only as "I", for a young waitress named Shino.
A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.
Story follows a group of high school girls trained as nurses during World War II who witness the horrors of war first-hand on Okinawa.