Shōichirō Sasaki Movies

A composer who can no longer compose music is led back to the past by his mother's voice. As a boy in the past, he encounters various characters,...

A 15-year-old boy, Hiroshi, wanders about in atmospheric early-1970s Japan. It is a drama that depicts human encounters in exploration of the...

Adaptation of a manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge.

The story of Czech architect Jan Letzel, who designed the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima

Conductor Ichiro Nakamura visits Prague and reminisces about his boyhood, his father, and his mother, Fumiko, as well as his evacuation experience...

A boy helps an unconscious girl by the river. The girl wakes up, but there is little conversation between the two, and the past emerges as a girl's...

The story of a man and woman dealing with amnesia, set in Prague.

The first in the River series. Eiko travels around northern Italy to get a violin repaired.

This drama features Eiko (a homonym of A-ko, meaning literally "a girl"), played by Sachiyo Nakao, whose memories are elevated by poetic visuals and...

Minyoung is a university co-ed living in Seoul. One photograph left to her by her late grandmother brings Minyoung all the way to Japan. And wherever...

Second in the River series. Eiko continues her travels, this time to Andalusia, Spain.

A Czech woman goes to the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima to hang a small bell made by her grandmother, and meets a Japanese boy.

While working for NHK as a 16mm film cameraman, Suzuki traveled to various parts of the country, particularly for shooting on location for rural...

One summer, under the bright sky, the boy Akira rushes about Finland on a journey. This production has the beautiful, invigorating tones of a fairy...

A Japanese woman travels around Australia in search of her lover whose whereabouts are unknown. Her interactions with the people whose lives are...

In this NHK Special, Olga Struskova, author from Prague, appears. Connections to the world of life on the streets of Tokyo are explored

A nine-year-old boy, Ken, alone in the city of Kobe during the port festival and holding on to the image of his absent mother, encounters people who...

Third in the River series, the Danube. The works of this trilogy feature stories about rivers linking three themes: rivers, sound, and human...