Yōko Katsuragi

Late Spring

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that i...

Scandal

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a f...

A Japanese Tragedy

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

Fountainhead

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

Apostasy

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal...

Typhoon Furor

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed...

Black River

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

Chutaro of Banba

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tom...

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...

Beauty of Life

Inochi uruwashi

Face in the Dark

Japanese suspense film.

The Tattered Wings

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's...

A Secret Rendezvous

After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of ex...

Fireworks Over the Sea

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Times of Joy and Sorrow

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

House of Many Pleasures

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a...

The Hill is Full of Flowers

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka...

Heso no taisho

1962 Japanese movie

Broken Drum

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into un...

Umi no Chizu

Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same...

Yassamossa

Glass-Hearted Johnny

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulner...

Hibi no haishin

Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. The two arra...

Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life...

Battle of Roses

Following the death of Mr Masago, his wife Satomi loses the family's cosmetics company to Mr Mogy due to huge a...

Shiroi Kiba

The Good Fairy

The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the ca...

Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass

The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The experiences...

武蔵と小次郎

As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, b...

The Portrait

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints he...

Dreaming People

Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual fr...

Disobedience

A university student wants to avenge his sister from a businessman who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant...

Musume wa kaku kōgi suru

A story about a high school sophomore, Uzumi Keiko (Kyoko Kami), in a coastal Japanese city, Keiko’s coming-of-...

The Waves

Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant.

男の哀愁

Ushiwakamaru