Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Le...
Acting
Eiko Miyoshi (April 8, 1894 – July 28, 1963) was a Japanese actress. She was born in Tokyo. Her husband was the film producer Nobuyoshi Morita. She appeared in many Toho films, including those directed by Akira Kurosawa. Her birth name was Haru Miyata, and her real name after marriage was Haru Morita.
After the Second World War , she entered the film industry at the request of director Akira Kurosawa. In 1946, at the age of 52, she made her first film appearance in Kurosawa's first postwar film, No Regrets for My Youth. From then on, through the 1950s, she was cast in a succession of films by Japan's leading directors, including Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Heinosuke Gosho, Kon Ichikawa, and Shirō Toyoda. She also appeared in many Toho salaryman comedies.
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Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Le...
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated ar...
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Despe...
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor,...
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tang...
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relation...
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samu...
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she w...
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. Wh...
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostit...
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu w...
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime u...
A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't...
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys...
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with...
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano....
Sixth entry in the Company President Series.
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affa...
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels...
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of th...
1958 Japanese movie
A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all...
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women...
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.
The story of five sisters.
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to...
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class ne...
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" in...
Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in li...