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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 Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
There Was a Father
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is...
Equinox Flower
A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
Marching Song
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
1939 Japanese movie
Zoku aizen katsura
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 doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.
Frozen River
The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.
Flower Shop Curtain
Divorce
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
The Castle of Sand
Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta
Hiroba no kōdoku
Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...
Woman in the Mist
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
Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting...
A Man's Recompense: Part 2
A Man's Recompense: Part 1
Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has...
Southern Wind
Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu...
The Flower is not False
Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm...
South 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
A group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free medical care to villagers. There they must battle...
Record of a Woman Doctor
Wakaki sugata
Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land...
Rise, Fair Sun
Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an...
Settlement of Love
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...
The New Road: Akemi
Fossilized Wilderness
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
Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....
Freedom School
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
Fountainhead
Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in...
The Woman’s Reflective Pool
Our Planes Fly South
A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.
Temptation
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
Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.
The Family
A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer....
Glowing Autumn
1945 Japanese movie
Sennichimae fukin
TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.
The Rokumeikan
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 unwanted.
Burden of Life
In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...
South Wind 2
1961 Japanese movie
Uzu
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...
August without Emperor
Genichiro Okugawa is appointed as the head of accounting in a feudal domain and travels with his servant Gonsuke to the country from Edo. Along the...
Countryside Accountant's Government Reform
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
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks...
Hunting Rifle
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
Family Meeting
A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...
The Masseurs and a Woman
Japanese Warmovie
Sinking the Unsinkable
The Spy Has Not Died Yet
Nichijô no tatakai
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
Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty...
On This Earth
Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...
Lady Doctor Kinuyo
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
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...
The Incident
Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he's not going down without a fight.
The Fixer
A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
Vermilion and Green
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
When a Woman Loves
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...
The Refugee
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.
Island of Hell
Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
The Waves
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
Men vs. Women
Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.
Moon Over the Ruins
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
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
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.
Army
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes...
The Fossil
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional...
The Three Undelivered Letters
A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi...
Akutoku
Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa
Goodbye, Hello
A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
May Love Be Restored
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.
Island of the Evil Spirits
A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.
The Wicked
Dôkoku
A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...
The Tree of Love
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Izu no musumetachi
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...
Warm Current
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...
The Cast-Off
A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.
Magnitude 7.9
Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
Japan's Don
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...
The New Road: Ryota
Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo...
Rainy Night Duel
Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...
I Want to Be a Shellfish
In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...
Let's Go in Good Spirits
娘十八嘘つき時代
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
Probation
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
The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...
Mother and Child
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
Aa seishun 1951
Ah Youth
Weed with Flowers
Weeds with flowers
Dawn Chorus
Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
Dancing with a Mask
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.
Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
First Love Questions and Answers
Thirst