Tokihiko Okada – MRQE

Sono yo no tsuma

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The film revolves around a desperate man who commits a crime in order to support his family, and the moral dilemma the policeman who tracks him down finds himself in.

Taki no shiraito

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always encloses money in her letters to him, until one hard winter there is no work to be found.

Tôkyô no kôrasu

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Mr. Omura, a teacher, leads a group of male students in an outdoor drill. One slight, comic young man, Shinji Okajima, has no shirt under his jacket; he scratches at fleas and makes faces behind Omura’s back. Jump ahead several years, Shinji is married with three children. He sells insurance, and on the company’s annual bonus day, he protests when an older worker is fired. Shinji loses his own job as a result, and he and his wife must find ways to cope. Lassitude, pride, the demands and needs of young children, and relationships from bygone school days all play a part in the outcome of their struggle.

Shukujo to hige

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.