Michiko Kawa

Yojimbo

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen...

Floating Clouds

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typis...

Yagyu Secret Scrolls

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

A Wanderer's Notebook

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the...

A Wife's Heart

A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't...

The Stranger Within a Woman

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s...

Fort Graveyard

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate...

Varan

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to invest...

Love on Rainbow Island

Japanese counterpart to Romeo and Juliet

You Can Succeed, Too

A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.

Lovers of Ginza

1961 Japanese movie

A Woman's Life

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Different Sons

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

Travel Stories of a Company President Part II

While on a business trip to Kyushu, a paint company president competes with a rival firm for a key overseas cli...

All About Marriage

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified...

No Time for Tears

Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But...

New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller

World Electric's top ad model disappears, throwing the company into disarray. A fortune-teller’s influence spre...

Settlement of Love

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead...

Ghost Man

A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi inv...

People of Tokyo, Goodbye

The President's Boss

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong

Yasugorō shusse

Young Tree

A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and e...

むっつり右門捕物帖 鬼面屋敷

1955 Japanese movie

The Young Boss is Third Generation

A carefree student from a traditional sake shop family balances love, rebellion, and a bike race while clashing...

Echo Mountain

An Ishiro Honda film.

Bride in a Bathing Suit

Katsuko, daughter of a prestigious inn owner, is urged into an arranged marriage with Keisuke, the nephew of a...

Sir Galahad in Campus

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

Gendai no yokubô

First Love Story

In Case of One Woman

So Deep in My Heart