Sue Mitobe

Ashita no Kaze

The 2nd NHK Asadora and the first Asadora to be broadcast in 15-minute episodes Monday through Saturday. Starri...

Red Beard

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

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...

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she was whole-...

Ballad of Orin

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change a...

The Christian Revolt

In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of cha...

The Youth Killer

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar hi...

Black River

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all...

The Ceremony

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the...

How Sorrowful

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about...

Fountainhead

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

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 Fossil

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is abroad in Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japa...

The Okinawa War of Ten Years

After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when O...

Cash Calls Hell

Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-s...

The Surf

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

Outlaw Cop

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another...

The Human Bullet

A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the a...

The Story of Pure Love

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society...

Ghost Story of Youth

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and S...

Red Paper Lantern

A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relat...

Woman with Wet Fingers

Real-Life stripper Madoka Mika plays the fictional ROSE RED, a former striptease queen who is now doing roadsho...

幻の女

Death at an Old Mansion

A woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowed overnight...

Time Within Memory

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to...

Preparation for the Festival

Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.

Season of Farewell

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

12 Chapters About Women

Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was fina...

Curry Rice

1962 Japanese movie

The Forest Is Alive

Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"

Police Precinct Part 13

On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the b...

Kusa wo karu musume

1961 Japanese movie

Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department bega...

The Edo Fortune-Teller

Karasudo, who charges 16 mon for his fortune-telling skill, asks for nothing when it comes to swordplay. His me...

Barefoot Gen: Explosion of Tears

First live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.