Chieko Murata

Chōjin Sentai Jetman

The Sky Force sends five highly trained operatives to participate in an experiment which will expose them to Bi...

Princess Yang Kwei-fei

In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor w...

Devil's Flute

Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of int...

Down Town

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer...

Lightning

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family w...

Tokyo Crime Map

An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of To...

A Hen in the Wind

Tokiko patiently awaits her husband's return from WWII when her four-year old son falls ill. She takes him to t...

A Geisha's Diary

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles throu...

Rira no hana wasureji

In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from...

The Snowy Heron

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, he...

Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights

The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musa...

The Ball at the Anjo House

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to p...

A Design for Dying

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsu...

Diary of a Mad Old Man

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while h...

Aijô ni tsuite

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died fro...

A Woman's Testament

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financi...

Fūshinraishin

1962 Japanese movie

High School Juniors (Part II)

A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the a...

Kirai Kirai Kirai

The Whale God

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.

The Red Water

Comedy drama film

Warm Current

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women...

Girls Born in August

The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall

When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat an...

Beauty the Enemy

In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the li...

The Burdened Sisters

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

Black Sea of Trees

Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamama...

Black Snow

Black Snow tells the tale of a disturbed young man who, after spying on his mother with a black serviceman, fin...

A Geisha on Horseback

Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the pro...

The Cruel Sea

It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES tre...

The Makioka Sisters

Based on the famous novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is a story of the four sisters of the ancient and reputab...

Nocturne of a Woman

A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye...

Triangle Moods

Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life ar...

Sakon Detective Story: Handprint in Fresh Blood

High School Third Graders

In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Ke...

A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.