Matsuko Shiga

Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu

An Autumn Afternoon

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

Early Summer

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

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...

August Without Emperor

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V...

The Three Undelivered Letters

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her fam...

Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with...

Farewell to Spring

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as the...

Samurai Spy

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of...

I, the Executioner

Police detectives investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed s...

The Kii River

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

Seiko Matsuda's Sweet Memories

Glory on the Summit

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three...

The Refugee

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan d...

Women of Tokyo

Kono sora no aru kagiri

Kyūjin ryokō

1962 Japanese movie

Akuma no kao

Portrait of Chieko

Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. Whe...

ある落日

By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him

Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only...

Kyū-chan ondo

1962 Japanese movie

Dolls floating down the river

A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho an...

At the Side of the Bridge 2

1962 Japanese movie

Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive

Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she love...

One Way Ticket to Love

The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dan...

The Performers

Seijuro Fujihana, head master of the Fujihana dance school, is a proud and lonely artist. And because of his ch...

Ano hito wa ima

1963 Japanese movie

Shinkon Tenki-zu

Falling Blossoms

Melodrama about the life of an unfortunate composer of the Meiji era, Rentaro Taki, who became known only after...

Love in the Deep

Bank robbers hide their loot in an underwater cave in a small fishing village, but the Ama (female divers) of t...

Scrap Collectors

Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.