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Father, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their love for each other after family discord and...
Sun over the River
Tadashi Imai 1946 movie
An Enemy of the People
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...
Striving to Live
Zesshou
Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had...
A Modern Samurai Village
1962 Japanese movie
Aniki
Yume ga ippai abarenbō
1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.
Onna keizu
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
Ballad of Orin
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Break Down that Wall
An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense...
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
Taiyō no yō ni akaruku
1950s Japanese drama.
Cape Ashizuri
Nun's Heaven
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through...
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins,...
Floating Weeds Diary
After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.
人生とんぼ返り
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a...
Demon Pond
A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns.
War and Peace
Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in...
Two Iida
A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"
Karisome no kuchibeni
Daughter and Springtime
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
Spring Awakens
Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....
Dispersed Clouds
Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress...
The Balloon
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job...
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.
Aoba gakuen monogatari
聟入り豪華船
Japanese drama film.
The Motherless
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever...
Onibaba
First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl...
Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl
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 post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation of a legend about a mummified Buddhist monk who was...
A Mummy’s Love
The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she...
A Slope in the Sun
One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.
Hana to musume to shiroi michi
Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and...
Glass-Hearted Johnny
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the...
A Story Written with Water
Japanese drama.
Chibusa o daku musume tachi
A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.
Season of Farewell
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru...
Time Within Memory
A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.
Both You and I
Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the...
A Turning to Hell
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and...
The Assassination of Ryoma
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and...
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
In this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of limitations after successfully stealing 300 million yen.
300 Million Thief Immune to Charges Begins
A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.
This Happy Life
The President's Son
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...
Tower of Lilies
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
The Boy Who Came Back
A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.
The Straits of Love and Hate
Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and...
Kitakami yakyoku
A young woman fails her university entrance exam and starts shoplifting.
Virgin Blues
Children of Izu
Nikoyon monogatari
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
Oh, My Son!
A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
May Love Be Restored
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...
Actress
Ai Sureba Koso
The Street Without Sun
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...
The Guitarist and the Rancher
A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to...
Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...
World of Love
Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling...
Let's Go, Grandma!
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
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
Kokoro no sanmyaku
Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and...
The Tokyo Mighty Guy
Five Tokyo Men
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.
Muhō Ichidai
1961 Japanese movie
Shōjo
Horror movie.
The House Where the Devil Lives