Cast: Tamotsu Hayakawa

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Shinsuke Ashida · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Synopsis Eight years into her marriage, Miyako looks happy on the outside, but in fact she is not satisfied with her husband, Yuzo, who cares about nothing but his career. Miyako has been having an affair with a young interior designer...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Takashi Fujiki · Mariko Kaga · Kyôko Kishida · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Synopsis In Shinoda’s look at codes of obligation, a union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was responsible for saving his life as a baby, he falls victim...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Tamotsu Hayakawa · Yoshiko Kayama · Gannosuke Ashiya · Yôko Mihara

Synopsis A drama about a clash between a responsible lodging house caretaker and a collective protagonist in the form of a pack of adolescents.

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Shima Iwashita · Yoshi Kato · Sachiko Hidari · Takahiro Tamura

Synopsis In this Japanese drama, a young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. First she torches her parents' villa, and then slaughters all her lascivious mother's lovers. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent,...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Chieko Baisho · Kyoko Aoi · Michi Aoyama · Kamatari Fujiwara

Synopsis Machiko (Chieko Baisho) lives comfortably with her father, grandmother and two younger brothers while working at a cosmetics factory in Shitamachi. Her boyfriend Michio (Tamotsu Hayakawa) has dreams of landing a salaried position and settling down in the suburbs, but...

Direction Zenzo Matsuyama

Cast Takahiro Tamura · Hideko Takamine · Tamotsu Hayakawa · Mickey Curtis

Synopsis In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate,...

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Shima Iwashita · Hiroyuki Nagato · Seiji Miyaguchi · Teruo Yoshida

Synopsis In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents...

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Koichi Sato · Eisei Amamoto · Kuniyasu Atsumi · Gô Awazu

Direction Eiichi Kudo · Hideo Suzuki · Kazuo Ikehiro · Kazuo Mori

Cast Isamu Nagato · Ikkô Furuya · Akiko Nomura · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Synopsis TV series (1977-1978). 2 seasons. 57 episodes.