Kuniko Miyake

Tokyo Story

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their...

Late Spring

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that i...

Until the End of the World

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her...

Good Morning

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relation...

An Autumn Afternoon

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that M...

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rustic man is tested by a...

Early Summer

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

Late Autumn

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from thr...

Early Spring

A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks...

The Makioka Sisters

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view...

Gonza the Spearman

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appearances are v...

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 Snowy Heron

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, he...

The Radiant Prince

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to...

On This Earth

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works...

The Final Winner?

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teac...

Mother's First Love

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who...

Love Under the Crucifix

A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feuda...

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...

Homecoming

A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who rat...

Etajima, the Naval Academy

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among th...

Hanran

Burden of Life

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom...

Youth After School

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around t...

Escapade in Japan

A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fis...

The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges

Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but...

The Wild Geese

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with...

The Phantom Horse

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

Tokyo Omnibus

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small...

The Rose on His Arm

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents a...

Journey

Zoku jūdai no seiten

Akiko Yasutomi, an 18-year-old high school student, lives in poverty with her mother Hisako, but she has feelin...

Bright Young Maidens

In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical scho...

A Female Doctor's Examination Room

A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more surprised to d...

A Ripple in a Morning

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Hibari's Tale of Pathos

Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s...