Tokuji Kobayashi

The Ballad of Narayama

In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the t...

Equinox Flower

Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares her love for a cowo...

One Wonderful Sunday

Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase housing, sma...

Twenty-Four Eyes

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoun...

A Japanese Tragedy

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful so...

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in...

Maria of the Ant Village

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic gi...

Happiness of Us Alone

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion,...

The River Fuefuki

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant f...

Stakeout

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to r...

Akuma no kao

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...

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in...

I Will Buy You

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

Happy Times

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

Snow-Flake

Hearts A-Flutter

Haru no Wakakusa

Always in My Heart

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tok...

Elegy

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" in...

The Loyal 47 Ronin

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the...

Okoto and Sasuke

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

The Rose on His Arm

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents a...

Daydream

While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires a...

Namida no hanamichi

Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba, had changed his n...

The Big Ambition

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...

Apart from You

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentfu...

Mado Kara Tobidase

The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Sh...

Beauty of Life

Inochi uruwashi

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen

Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn.

The Spy Has Not Died Yet

King of the Land

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

The Lights of Asakusa

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu'...

Moth-eaten Spring

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Lady Doctor Kinuyo

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight...