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Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
Dancing with a Mask
An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....
Moon of the Plateau
A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
A Woman's Life
1939 Japanese movie
Zoku aizen katsura
Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.
Mother's Love Letter
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
Nobuko
The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases,...
White Beast
1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker
Kodakara Sodo (The Treasure That Is Children) is a 1935 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Torajiro Saito....
Kid Commotion
Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the...
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount...
Fighting Yasubei
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes...
A Holiday in Tokyo
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...
The Blue Pearl
1950 drama film
Blue Sky Angel
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
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...
Late Chrysanthemums
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
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
Sudden Rain
Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in...
The Lady of Musashino
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
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
Spring Awakens
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
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
1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Stray Sheep
Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of his supposed stubbornness....
Wood and Stone
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.
Moon Over the Ruins
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...
Snow Country
Aishu no machi ni kiri ga furu
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
A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat...
The Age of Assassins
Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut
Lovers' Duet
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 reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...
Introspection Tower
Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
Song of the Flower Basket
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
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
An Ishiro Honda film.
The Man Who Came to Port
Mother and Son
Echo Mountain
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
Izu no musumetachi
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
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
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
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...
Ikiru
On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first...
On Wings of Love
Ticket to Hell
Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her...
Spring Thunder
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...
Marital Relations
A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second...
Flowers of Patriotism
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
If you throw this child away
If You Throw This Child Away
The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam construction site in what is now Hanamaki City,...
Swift Current