Hisako Takihana

Niji

Starring Yōko Minamida as a woman who supported her family during and after World War II. All episodes are miss...

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu w...

The Great White Tower

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa Univ...

Clothes of Deception

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

The Long Darkness

The relationship between Tetsuro, a university student from a disgraced, burdened family, and Shino, a waitress...

The Tale of Genji

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" a...

A Lustful Man

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that...

Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi

The film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school where students curs...

Theater of Life

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

A Design for Dying

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

The Most Valuable Wife

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is mar...

The Eleventh Hour

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A so...

Lightning

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

Repast

In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's yo...

Husband and Wife

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes...

The Ataka Family

Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart...

The Blue Sky Maiden

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds...

Chutaro of Banba

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tom...

The Day the Sun Rose

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan,...

The Makioka Sisters

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

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discove...

The Beloved Image

A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.

A Certain Woman

Forbidden Lips

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and si...

Outlaw island

The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors...

A Woman's Testament

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

Ah Special Attack Corps

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in...

Eyes of Children

Shunji Mitamura's wife died very early and left him a young son. Shunji's sister Hideko decided to fulfill her...

Song of Love

In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka Shōko, at a...

Beyond the Hills

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

Yasubei Nakayama

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord K...

Forbidden

Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He...

The Gambler's Code

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he mu...

When We Came Back

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

While Yet a Wife

A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to...

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years