Kikue Mōri

Nobuko to Obachan

The 9th NHK Asadora. Starring Naoko Otani as a young woman living with her grandmother.

Sansho the Bailiff

In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separate...

Ugetsu

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearb...

Irezumi

Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During th...

The Life of Oharu

During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of...

A Geisha

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran g...

Gate of Hell

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprisi...

The Inferno

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief f...

The Christian Revolt

In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of cha...

Revenge

An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to a...

An Actor's Revenge

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ag...

Night Drum

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his hom...

The Love of the Actress Sumako

Stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with outspoken actress Sumako...

Women of the Night

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

A Legend or Was It?

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leade...

Silence

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity a...

A Woman's Life

Kagebōshi

On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague...

Bonchi

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overb...

The Den of Beasts

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had strugg...

The Horse Boy

A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the child, now a...

Capone's Younger Brother: Heart and Speculation

Lesser, but still modestly entertaining sequel. Wakayama is wonderfully bastardly here, but has to do without C...

Yoake no hata matsumoto jiichirō Den

Strong Women, Weak Men

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her da...

Poem

A rigidly devoted young servant lives in a decaying aristocratic household as its members drift toward modernit...

Could I But Live

Could I But Live

Lucky Dragon No. 5

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka...

Rebellion

In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to...

Christ in Bronze

Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan.

Mission to Hell

A samurai warrior attempts to stop Kublai Khan's Mongol hordes from overrunning Japan in the 13th century.

This Way, That Way

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away fr...

The Mad Fox

A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on...

Blood of Revenge

Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame...

Yokubo

Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).