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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
Ryûri no kishi
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current...
A Story of Floating Weeds
Confession
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo...
The Only Son
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
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
Hey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while trembling!! Set in a simple rural town's post...
Shiroi natsu
Thriller directed by Seiji Maruyama
The Enchanting Devil
Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.
Mother's Love Letter
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her...
Forever a Woman
A young boy named Chomatsu (Misora Hibari) lives with an old man Denbei near the grounds of Asakusa temple as bell ringers. In their house is an...
Somersault on the Way
Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into...
Yabanjin no Nekutai
The 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train in deep-sea navigation. The Young Ace comes to the...
The Young Ace in the South Pacific
1962 Japanese movie
Tōkyō sanosa musume
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...
Frankie the Milkman
1950s Japanese comedy.
Third Class Executives
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...
The Boss's Son at College
The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble...
Osayo koisugata
The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...
Eclipse
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...
Okoto and Sasuke
The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the...
祇園物語 春怨
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two...
Tsukiyo no kasa
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...
Late Chrysanthemums
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
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
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
1951 Japanese movie
Minami kaze
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...
Policeman's Diary
A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.
A Mother's Love
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them...
The Munekata Sisters
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
In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to...
High School Third Graders
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...
The Genealogy of Women
The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often...
Season of the Sun
A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in...
The Foster Mother
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...
The Wolves
A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some...
Lumberjack and Lady
A 1937 Japanese film.
Renai muteki kantai
Japanese silent film.
Island Girl
In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.
The Final Winner?
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
Sing, Young People
Japanese comedy film.
浮かれ狐千本櫻
A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a...
Song of the Underworld
A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.
Lover's Duet
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....
The Lights of Asakusa
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...
Burden of Love
Japanese drama film.
Nikoyon monogatari
Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.
Acchan no bebi gyangu
Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...
My Elder Brother
Their Father's Wife
An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
Itsuko to sono haha
Goodbye to the Front
Seishun wo warera ni
Shunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging house girl who is in love with him and in the midst...
Karate Sanshiro
During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...
A Star Athlete
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
Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human...
Kinuyo's First Love
A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.
Okinu and Banto
The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.
Rikidozan: Man of Fury