Yaeko Izumo

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Le...

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun,...

Floating Clouds

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typis...

Chûshingura

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to av...

Repast

In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's yo...

Girls of the Night

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new re...

Sudden Rain

Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki's marriage has gone stale, with both constantly arguing over what to do on a day off,...

The Age of Assassins

A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad as...

Snow Country

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with...

New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking

A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressure from all...

Late Chrysanthemums

What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a we...

Swift Current

The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam construction...

The Blue Pearl

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women...

The Lady of Musashino

In post-war Japan, Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, confides in her younger...

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

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...

Marital Relations

​Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affa...

Holiday in Tokyo

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels...

A Woman's Life

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

The School of Flesh

A love story about a former noblewoman who greedily enjoys love after breaking up with her unhappy marriage aft...

White Beast

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

Spring Awakens

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

Moment of Terror

When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a compan...

Husband and Wife

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes...

On Wings of Love

On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-gross...

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...

Who Is the Informer?

After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out the homes o...

The Lights of Asakusa

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

Ticket to Hell

B.G Story: Designs of a 20 Year-Old

Ayako Kurimura, a new B.G. at Nitto Electric, becomes the object of affection for both her brother's colleague...

All of Myself

The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following the death of...

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had strugg...

Zoku aizen katsura

1939 Japanese movie

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...

Moon Over the Ruins

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

Spring Thunder

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and l...