Chikako Kaga

Professional Killers

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that intro...

Kirai Kirai Kirai

The Ladder of Success

A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside...

Peony on the Skin

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...

Akiko

Akiko lives with her brother Toshio in suburban Tokyo working in different companies. One day, Toshio loses 500...

Young Trees

A bright and cheerful story about a young girl who comes to Tokyo from the countryside, relying on her aunt to...

Elegy of the North

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsur...

Hit and Run Gang

Detective Goto, who had sniffed out drugs as the culprit behind the murder of an elderly woman, was run over an...

情熱の詩人啄木

1962 Japanese movie

白磁の人

Yutaro's Secret Story

Yutaro Kodan, born under a cloud because his aristocrat father died opposing the shogunate, stumbles onto a tre...

こゝに幸あり・前篇 誘惑の都

1956 Japanese movie

Reminiscence

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yas...

B.G. monogatari: Ekinyūmon

1962 Japanese movie

BGs of Ginza

Story of love, jealousy and hatred among waitresses of a deluxe bar.

Tenka ayatsuri-gumi

1961 Japanese movie