Directed byNobuhiko Ōbayashi GenresDrama, Romance ThemesFilms about music and musicians, Musical films ActorsMomoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Tomoko Naraoka, Eiji Okada, Yōko Minamida Rating60% A piano tuner on holiday in San Francisco, Kyoko (Yamaguchi), meets Tetsuo (Miura), a Japanese layabout on the run from his debts in Japan. Kyoko tells Tetsuo she is a pianist who has come to San Francisco to kill herself. After enjoying a night in a bar full of exciting people, they become romantically involved, and she admits she was lying. Kyoko starts living in Tetsuo's apartment but then has to leave. She persuades Tetsuo to come back to Japan in September.
, 1h37 Directed byKatsumi Nishikawa GenresDrama ActorsMomoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Ikue Sakakibara, Akiko Kazami, Nobuo Nakamura, Masahiko Tsugawa (津川 雅彦) Rating66% Set in 19th-century Osaka, the film tells the story of a love affair between Sasuke (Miura) and blind koto teacher Shunkin (Yamaguchi), who lost her sight at the age of nine. Blindness gives Shunkin an extraordinary ability to masterfully play the traditional Japanese instruments of the three-stringed shamisen and thirteen-stringed sophisticated koto. She performs as a renowned musician and also gives music lessons.