Sachiko Murase

Rhapsody in August

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

Station

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police office...

Gateway to Glory

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

Zatoichi the Fugitive

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza bos...

The Snow Woman

Two sculptors spend the night in a mountain lodge after being caught in a snowstorm. A female spirit appears an...

Sunflower Girl

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys...

Apostasy

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal...

Love for an Idiot

A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to...

Kisses

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race,...

The Angry Street

University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into givi...

A Woman's Life

The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-wa...

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

The Naked Executive

The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess...

Striving to Live

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his yo...

Time and Tide

An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.

When Women Lie

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Y...

Ticket to Hell

A Human Promise

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back i...

Honno-Ji in Flames

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about th...

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...

Onna keizu

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

Yukiko

Aruhi watashi wa

The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a matern...

Port of Flowers

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of Wor...

The Kii River

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

Sincerity

Two young girls, Nobiko and Tomiko, go to the same school. The less fortunate girl Nobiko is one of the top stu...

Spring Awakens

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

Itsuko to sono haha

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.

Fresh Leaves

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she d...

Zatoichi and the Doomed Man

Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence o...

Okoto and Sasuke

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manserv...

Okoto and Sasuke

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manserv...

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

Carmen's Innocent Love

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Women's House

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's da...

The Hill is Full of Flowers

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka...