Masami Taura

Early Spring

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

Tokyo Twilight

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she w...

A Japanese Tragedy

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful so...

Different Sons

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money...

Chikuhō no kodomotachi

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

The Tattered Wings

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

A Woman's Life

The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-wa...

Aces Wild

Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descenda...

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding throug...

Ma no kisetsu: Haru no mizuumi

One Step to Happiness

北上川悲歌

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song by Tsuzuko Sugawara.

The Adorable Trio

Japanese romantic comedy film.

The Izu Dancer

Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.

Love du Jour

The proprietress of a long-established sushi restaurant in Asakusa is a war widow who has raised three children...

Wedding Day

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life...

Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass

The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The experiences...

Flying in the Air

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.

Kenkagarasu

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.

The Garden of Women

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

Sunny house

On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and...

Every Wife Cannot Stand Still

When It Rains, It Pours

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest d...

Next Door to Happiness

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

Hunting Rifle

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it i...

Mother's Ambition

The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisit...

A Case of Honor

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus c...

Ai to chie no wa

Shochiku Festival: All-Star Lineup – Studio Express / The Birth of an Actress

Produced by Shochiku’s all-star cast as a commemorative film to mark the completion of the “Shochiku Kaikan” in...

Here It is Quiet

A youth film set in a high school.

沖縄健児隊

Youth

Doronko tengoku