BÚSQUEDA
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...
Late Spring
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Early Spring
"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was...
Youth After School
Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an...
Island of Horrors
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells...
Good Morning
1954 Japanese movie
Aizen katsura
Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.
Zoku jūdai no seiten
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
Flower in a Storm
1962 Japanese movie
Zoku aizen katsura
Dôkoku
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...
Tokyo Story
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
Early Summer
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
Japanese movie released on September 30 , 1967 . Produced and distributed by Toho . Color , Toho scope . Running time is 88 minutes.
Sodachi zakari
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
Tokyo's Business District
A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheated bathroom.
Battle of Roses
A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...
Flame of My Love
The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.
Youth of the Son
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
The Wild Geese
One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the...
The Daring Nun
Japanese drama.
Mount Hakone
The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to...
Housewife Camellia
Story of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in entering the service, while the other finds a job in...
Boy Aviation Pilots
A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for...
Queen of the Wind
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
The Trio's Engagements
San'nin musume kanpai!
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with...
Gonza the Spearman
君と僕
Hanran
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...
Ejima and Ikushima
Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).
Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen
Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful,...
Poppy
Kyōshū
Japanese drama
Kobushi no hana no sakukoro
A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children
Haha o tataeru uta
Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.
Bannai Tarao Series Demon King of Kyokumadan
The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The experiences of a middle-aged couple with a child!...
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her father,...
Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
1950 Japanese film
Alps Story: The Wild
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...
A Brother and His Younger Sister
A Roaring Trade
A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.
Okayo's Preparedness
Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...
Eclipse
A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman's son, with the two setting off...
Escapade in Japan
Miyake has a boyfriend, Daijiro Natsukawa, who is a novelist, but considering her future marriage, Miyake is also looking for a job for her, but...
Half Virgin
Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was...
Burden of Life
1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.
The Makioka Sisters
In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in...
Until the End of the World
Kazuko Matsuo sings the theme song to this drama film.
東京の夜は泣いている
The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.
The Portrait
A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.
Mother's First Love
Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and...
Hibari's Tale of Pathos
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...
Family Diary
Japanese mystery thriller.
Late Night Confession
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
The Rose on His Arm
Yuji Makita (Wakahara) came to a hot spring port town as a singer who plays the guitar. Thirteen years ago, Sanae Shimura (Miyake) was in love with...
I Yearn for Father
A sweet and melancholy story that depicts, with beautiful sentimentality, the day when a dreamy and lovely young girl first discovers love in the...
Tasogare no Tokyo Tower
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song by Tsuzuko Sugawara.
北上川悲歌
A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.
Farewell Song
A 1937 Japanese film.
Renai muteki kantai
A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...
The Golden Demon
In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.
The Final Winner?
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...
The Blue Sky Maiden
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...
Tokyo Omnibus
Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new...
The Radiant Prince
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
A Ripple in a Morning
A modern love story involving different affairs.
Someday I'll Know
In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a...
Bright Young Maidens
The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisitioned by the occupation forces. When...
Mother's Ambition
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
Late Autumn
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the...
An Autumn Afternoon
A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...
Introspection Tower
Journey
Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's...
The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch
A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video designer on UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, in Tokyo, and...
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...
The Snowy Heron
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a...
1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura
On This Earth
Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...
The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges
花眞珠
Dianas of the Campus
A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who ratted him out, and reconnects with his...
Homecoming
Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The...
New Woman Question and Answer
While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.
Children Seeking a Mother
A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.
Okinu and Banto
Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.
The Burdened Sisters
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.
The Phantom Horse
Chikaiteshi
Love River
Mother