Kinuko Wakamizu

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their...

Great X

A 1948 Japanese film.

Apart from You

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentfu...

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

Japanese war movie.

Introspection Tower

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretaker...

Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Y...

Don't Tell Your Wife About It

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up...

The Genealogy of Women

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first...

Amakara chindōchū

Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He now resides...

Four Seasons of Children

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father become...

Moth-eaten Spring

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Sinking the Unsinkable

Japanese Warmovie

Okoto and Sasuke

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manserv...

Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative...

The Boss's Son at College

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team...

Tengoku ni musubu koi

Based on the Sakatayama double suicide

The Dancing Girl of Izu

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and...

Middle-Aged Man

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.

Passion

Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.

Sayon's Bell

Based on the true story of a 17-year old Atayal girl called Sayun Hayun from Nan'oku village, Giran district, T...

The Woman Who Holds the Key

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.

Tôribêyama shinjû

The doomed love story between a young courtesan and a samurai, in Kyoto.

Victory of Women

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative pr...

Island Girl

Japanese silent film.

Flowers of Patriotism

A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by si...

Acorns & Chestnuts

A city boy moves to the countryside and the kids there pick on him.

Yôma kitan

Japanese horror movie from 1929.

Theater

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

The Cheerleading Captain's Love

Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he meets at th...

天龍下れば

Kurotegumi Sukeroku

Shinzaemon has been Sukeroku’s enemy ever since Sukeroku fought and defeated gangs from Shinzaemon’s group at a...

The Golden Demon

Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealt...

The Tramp and His Daughter

Japanese silent film from 1931.