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Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of...
Incident at Blood Pass
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...
Omatsuri hanjiro
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to...
Drunken Angel
A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
A Woman's Life
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Mother
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...
Untamed Woman
1962 Japanese movie
Long Way to Okinawa
Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have...
One Wonderful Sunday
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...
Flowing
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
Sound of the Mountain
Salaryman Shimizu Minato
Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".
Nippon Irresponsible Guy
Doburoku no Tatsu
The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases,...
White Beast
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...
Floating Clouds
Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Women Doing Time
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
The Last War
When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and...
Desperado Outpost
A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly...
Yearning
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
Sudden Rain
Josei jishin
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
A Whistle in My Heart
Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun
Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Lord for a Night
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
A film by Hideo Suzuki.
A Dangerous Hero
Shin kitsune to tanuki
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island...
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
The Storm
The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and...
The Most Beautiful
Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...
No Regrets for Our Youth
A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a...
The Quiet Duel
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
Repast
The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a...
Lightning
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...
Wife
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...
A Wife's Heart
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....
The Thin Line
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...
Little Peach
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...
A Wanderer's Notebook
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Love Letter
The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.
The Vampire Moth
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....
Once More
Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.
A Smell of Money
Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...
Geisha in the Old City
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.
Happy Go-Lucky
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of...
An Innocent Witch
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...
The Other Woman
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...
The Lost Alibi
Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.
The Weed of Crime
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...
The Ditch
こんにちは赤ちゃん
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...
Farewell Rabaul
A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.
Blood and Diamonds
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in...
Those Who Make Tomorrow
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...
Samurai Saga
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...
Daredevil in the Castle
Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one...
The Lovable Tramp
During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Mayumi Ozora), the widow of a naval officer. She,...
Farewell, My Beloved
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...
The Three Treasures
Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.
Get 'em All
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by...
Moment of Terror
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently release from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build...
Girls of the Night
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...
Three Women of the North
Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornographic pictures. He frequents a cafe run by two...
Procurer of Hell
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Husband and Wife
A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
Adolescence Part II
Futari dake no hashi
An Ishiro Honda film.
Lovetide
Mother and Son
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
Ryô is a young leopard, Maki a rhythmical wave. The barrier between a teacher and a student gives way to the passionate embrace of a man and a...
Forbidden Affair
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...
47 Ronin
Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.
Blood on the Sea
Nichijô no tatakai
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...
Happiness of Us Alone
With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...
Eleven High School Girls
As Long as I Live
Yasugorō shusse
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
Red-Light Bases
Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...
Love Never Fails
Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be (Ichiro Araki) is...
Pretty Devil Yoko
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...
Tora-san's Song of Love
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Early Spring
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...
Life of a Country Doctor