Noriko Honma

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection fr...

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Le...

Rashomon

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Yojimbo

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

Red Beard

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his fir...

Dreams

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s...

Stray Dog

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Despe...

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. Th...

Rhapsody in August

An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945...

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun,...

Madadayo

In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce...

G.I. Samurai

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's...

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes l...

I Live in Fear

An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. Wh...

Battle of the Japan Sea

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet an...

Untamed Woman

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to fin...

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...

Town of Violence

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the l...

Mother

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

The Surf

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a...

Brother and Sister

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college stude...

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...

Last of the Wild Ones

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

Varan

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

Marital Relations

​Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affa...

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

Varan the Unbelievable

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set u...

The Blue Pearl

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women...

The Lone Journey

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for l...

All About Marriage

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

Anything For Success

A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His biggest scheme...

Where Chimneys Are Seen

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class ne...

The End of the Night

Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase fu...

Girls in the Orchard

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditio...

People of Tokyo, Goodbye

Ditch

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take i...