Fujio Nagahama

Stray Dog

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Despe...

Taiyō no Namida

The day before he leaves on a business trip to Europe, Shoji meets an old man named Ogawa while visiting his yo...

The Wicked

A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves thro...

White Beast

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

Nomugi Pass

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The...

The End of the Night

Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase fu...

Army

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstandi...

Mama, I Need You!

After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unpr...

The Blue Mountains: Part I

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for...

Duel in the Sun

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Dancing Girl

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, fi...

War and Peace

A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns.

Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter

Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, s...

Pursuit At Dawn

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written b...

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Wedding March

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Kawachi fūten zoku

1968 film

Kirare no Senta

Okoto and Sasuke

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

Sandai no sakazuki

1942 Japanese movie

Schoolgirl Records

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.

Juvenile Delinquents

Follows a bunch of school renegades and their downfall into criminality in a docu-drama style, completely refre...