Setsuko Shinobu

Street Without End

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a hos...

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their...

Mr. Thank You

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Iz...

Burden of Life

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom...

The Last Women

The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops be...

Okoto and Sasuke

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

Weeds with flowers

Weed with Flowers

The New Road: Akemi

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she...

Eclipse

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishi...

Warm Current

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts th...

Zoku aizen katsura

1939 Japanese movie

Introspection Tower

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretaker...

The Groom Talks in His Sleep

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivate...

Nobuko

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching me...

The Young Women of Izu

A Certain Woman

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of job...

Sumida River

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mo...

Forget Love for Now

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.

Goodbye to the Front

A 1937 Japanese film.

The Tree of Love

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with...

Wood and Stone

Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) beca...

Song of the Flower Basket

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district o...

Hana Yori Dango: Studio F's Cherry Blossom Viewing

10 minutes 18fps, 35mm, silent, black and white. The film records the members of Studio F enjoying a cherry blo...