Chisako Hara

There is a series of Buddha statue thefts in Kyoto. Beniko, a high school girl, gets the Buddha statue at her family’s temple stolen and ...

A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he ...

Set in 13th century Kyoto, where the Imperial court is under control of the clergy. Shijo was a peasant girl sold to a powerful daima as a ...

In the late 1950’s prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this profession they were sent to a reformatory. ...

Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, ...