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The legendary Forty seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku

A seasoned geisha and her apprentice maiko are forced to give in to their clients sexual advances to survive

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models A world of passion swirls around him, as the women in his life vie for lovers And, occasionally, his art gets h

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century

Follows a womans fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society

The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression

Two geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other sister sets up various schemes to get rid of him

A mistress of a drug dealer in post war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister

Ishun is a wealthy, but unsympathetic, master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out