Fusako Maki

Pale Flower

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while t...

The Inheritance

A dying businessman intends to will ¥200 million to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme...

Town of Violence

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the l...

The Masseurs and a Woman

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a W...

Women of the Night

In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's si...

Miniature

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to t...

Port of Flowers

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of Wor...

Wakai hito-tachi

A Star Athlete

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one...

Haru no Wakakusa

Dancing with a Mask

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Ai to kanashimi to

1962 Japanese movie

Warm Current

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts th...

Our Planes Fly South

Sunny house

On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and...

Yurusareta ichiya

The Performers

Seijuro Fujihana, head master of the Fujihana dance school, is a proud and lonely artist. And because of his ch...

Twilight of Tokyo

A romance that follows the men in the life of Kyoko a Travel Agent working for New Japan Travel Service.

Waiting Woman

Waiting woman

Daini no shuppatsu

The Flower is not False

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as...

Enraptured

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of...

Women at War

Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film compan...

Yasen gungakutai

Haigo no hito