Ton Shimada

Pitfall

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck,...

Lucky Dragon No. 5

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka...

The Catch

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who awa...

Stepbrothers

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household w...

Yukiko

Night Drum

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his hom...

The Song of the Cart

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

The Street Without Sun

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large...

Twice on a Certain Night

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is despera...

Yellow Crow

Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-ye...

Floating Weeds Diary

A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every...

Otome no inori

1959 Japanese movie

His Scarlet Cloak

The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's beauty attr...

Meiken monogatari

Japanese film.

The Boyhood of Dr. Noguchi

Depicts the boyhood days of Dr. Noguchi, world famous bacteriologist, who was born in a poor village as a farme...

Mirai ni tsunagaru ko ra

1962 Japanese movie

Taiyō o iru mono

1961 Japanese movie