Sachiko Soma

Ugetsu

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearb...

Talented Woman

Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and...

Miss Oyu

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sist...

Ashita ni Mukatte Tsuppashire

Season of Farewell

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

This Way, That Way

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away fr...

The Seasons of Love

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her ch...

The Young and Bad

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed...

Tales of Ginza

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art coll...

Tree of Love

1954 Japanese movie

Windy Street

Adapted from the original work by the literary giant Yasunari Kawabata. Through the lives of three sisters each...

Zesshou

The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter of a fores...

Red Bud and White Flower

A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

Welcome, My Baby

Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24...

Chivalrous Life

In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the...

A Hole of My Own Making

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu...

Your Life

A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.

Kitakami Nocturne

Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years...

Resurrection

Whistling in the Darkness

A 1961 crime film.

Kobushidake denki

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Unripe Fruit

A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and...

Kobushidake denki : hito hada jigoku

快傑耶茶坊

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

Forever, My Love

The Rambler Rides Again

In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where...

Reminiscence

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yas...

Kidō sōsahan muhō chitai

1962 Japanese movie