Masao Hayama

There Was a Father

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor...

I Was Born, But...

Brothers Keiji and Ryoichi move to a new neighborhood in the Tokyo suburbs after their father, an office clerk,...

The Only Son

A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds...

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...

Mr. Thank You

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Iz...

What Did the Lady Forget?

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osak...

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...

Mother and Child

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mis...

Four Seasons of Children

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

Dancing with a Mask

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Sinking the Unsinkable

Japanese Warmovie

Children in the Wind

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and a...

A Star Athlete

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one...

Moon Over the Ruins

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

Our Planes Fly South

Echigo jishi-sai

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo

Mother and Child Grass

Southern Wind

Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained...

Surging Waves

Pineapple Butai

The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.

Sailor

Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his f...

You Are the Next Eagle

A boy aviator endures rigorous training and a sad fate, and grows into a strong man with his eyes set on becomi...

Five Siblings

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest so...

Forget Love for Now

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.

Women at War

Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film compan...

Okinu and Banto

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.