Kunio Otsuka

Edo Porn

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his dau...

Chûshingura

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to av...

Yagyu Secret Scrolls

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if rev...

The Retreat from Kiska

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arriv...

Summer Clouds

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview he...

A Whistle in My Heart

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of th...

Lovers of Ginza

1961 Japanese movie

Beyond the Hills

Story of young love in the hills.

The Lovelorn Geisha

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is...

The Wiser Age

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Kyukei no Koya

A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set i...

Romance Express

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In t...

The Terrible Game

Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with the daughter...

Bandits on the Wind

1961 Japanese movie

Teacher Deer

Mejika, reputed for her iron discipline, is hired as a biology teacher at a renowned high school. But her provo...

The Storm

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

Location

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set...

A Bridge for Two Alone

Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes th...

Cry for Sorrow

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.

The Fox With Nine Tails

Tobimaru is the young emperor of Japan. He meets a mysterious woman named Tomamo. After successfully seducing T...

A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye

An Ishiro Honda film.

3 Dolls in College

The first of eight "Three Dolls" features. In this entry the girls, students at Nichinan University, balance st...

The Orientals

Episodic, globe-trotting quasi-mondo focused on women of the East.

First Love Story