Kuniko Igawa

Early Summer

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, he...

Twenty-Four Eyes

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoun...

Carmen Comes Home

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has b...

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...

The River Fuefuki

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant f...

Times of Joy and Sorrow

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

Rira no hana wasureji

In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from...

The Living Magoroku

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs a...

The Tattered Wings

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's...

Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira...

Haru no Wakakusa

快盗三人吉三

On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshim...

Subarashiki shōtai

1955 Japanese movie

Whistling in the morning

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decide...

Love Letter

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other...

The Snow Flurry

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

風雲金毘羅山

The Portrait

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints he...

母恋草

Over That Hill

Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father...

The Girl I Loved

A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of th...

The Garden of Women

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

Jubilation Street

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melanc...

First Love Questions and Answers

Hiroi Ten

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

Musume wa kaku kōgi suru

A story about a high school sophomore, Uzumi Keiko (Kyoko Kami), in a coastal Japanese city, Keiko’s coming-of-...

Zenigata Heiji: Ghost Lord

Hirenge

A 1950 film by director 原研吉.

Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu

1953 Japanese movie

Next Door to Happiness

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of moder...

Marriage

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstance...

Torrent of a Big City

A young yakuza student is led back to the straight and narrow path by his uncle.

Victory of Women

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

Jonan Yashiki

Onna no ryūkō

十九の春