Kuniko Miyake – MRQE

Yari no gonza

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojo for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannajo sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.

Sôshun

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Hebi musume to hakuhatsuma

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That’s all about to change when her real father mysteriously comes to get her and finally bring her home.

Escapade in Japan

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman’s son, with the two setting off on an unintended journey across the country.

Maboroshi no uma

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy’s family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

Tokyo Story

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don’t have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

Ochazuke no aji

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Takeo, a capricious wife from Tokyo high society, is bored by her dull husband, a quiet and reliable company executive raised in the country. After a crisis, she understands better his true value. A parallel sub-plot shows her niece rebelling against the tradition of arranged marriages.

Bakushû

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Banshun

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry — that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa’s matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

Waga koi wa moenu

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman’s struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.