Michiyo Aratama

Niji wo Oru

The 26th NHK Asadora. Shimazaki Kayo is a woman from Hagi, Yamaguchi, who joins the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanes...

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief...

Kwaidan

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A...

Shin Heike Monogatari

Set at the end of the 12th century when several wars for control of Japan disrupted a long era of peace, this t...

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on retur...

Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow

Kaze to kumo to Niji to deals with the Heian period in Japan. Based on Chōgorō Kaionji`s novels Taira no Masaka...

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive tr...

The Sword of Doom

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral...

Chûshingura

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

The End of Summer

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health afte...

雪の華－建礼門院徳子の生涯

Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the governmen...

Samurai Assassin

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of...

The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle...

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo....

New Third Class Executive: Husband Education

Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a...

Brand of Evil

A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he jo...

Till We Meet Again

Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with he...

Conflagration

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion,...

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them h...

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...

The Masterless 47 – Part II

The Twilight Story

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing mother. Whi...

The Stranger Within a Woman

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

The Masterless 47

Part one of The Masterless 47.

A Trap

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty,...

The Human Condition

LOVE IS THE CONDITION FOR BEING HUMAN The Human Condition is a Japanese epic film trilogy made between 1959 and...

Once a Rainy Day

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in l...

The Balloon

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrog...

The Heart

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they...

New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking

A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressure from all...

The Human Revolution

Three Gentlemen from Tokyo

Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong

Cold Rice, Osan, Chan

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make mo...

President's Ninja Trick Book Part II

Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follows—personal...