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Set in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka Prefecture, the film depicts people taking on the evil blast...
Hot Wind
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
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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
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
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...
The Idiot
A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki...
Talking with Ozu
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...
The End of Summer
The film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school where students curse and gamble. The school has a pond...
Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
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
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
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon...
White Fish
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...
The Age of Beginnings
Musume to watashi
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
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
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...
Tokyo Story
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
Early Summer
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
Tokyo Twilight
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
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
Oban kanketsu hen
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...
Ôban
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...
The Ball at the Anjo House
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
Here's to the Young Lady
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...
The Blue Mountains: Part I
The film reconstructs the life of Noriko by selecting scenes from Oz Yasujiro’s films featuring actor Hara Setsuko.
Noriko Setsuko
Noriko Setsuko 2
Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money. They...
The Crown of Life
An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to...
Until Victory Day
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
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...
Green Earth
Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there...
The Daughter of the Samurai
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
It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...
Currents of Youth
1950 Japanese film
Alps Story: The Wild
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
Sudden Rain
Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the...
Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.
Priest of Darkness
A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.
Temptation
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 eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...
Kōfuku no genkai
Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.
The Blue Mountains: Part II
When Sentarô’s father is killed by a drunken samurai, Sentarô avenges him. His deed puts him on the run and leaves his sister...
The Snake Princess
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish...
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was...
Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.
Woman Unveiled
Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by...
Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
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
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
Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of holding the weather trackers as hostages and...
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...
The Giant
It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts...
The Cruel Sea
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...
Tokyo Sweetheart
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...
Wedding Day
Machi
Part one of two.
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
A film that begins with wit and comedy when a husband tries to hide and mask his drinking, which his Jesus freak and very Christian wife dislikes, by...
Winter Inn
Part two of two.
Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
The film centres around junior high school students. They are members of the school's baseball team. They are very good. Izawa's father asks him to...
Throwing the Soul Away
This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a...
Shanghai Landing Party
Shot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their country to Japan in order to experience the latter...
Toyuki
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...
Women in Prison
The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of...
The Opium War
In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going...
The Wayside Pebble
Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large...
Three-Fingered Detective
Mother's Melody
In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...
Story of Leadership
A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.
Pastoral Symphony
A man attacks the shogun, but does not succeed in his assassination attempt. He flees to the mountains and hides in a shed. There he finds an old man...
The Woman Aiming for the Shogun
Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a...
The Wind Blows Twice
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...
Sky of Hope
A rich bourgeoisie family has little care in the world and knows no other lifestyle. It is only the family's second daughter who has an insecure bone...
Beautiful Departure
This is the story of a woman who enters the world of sales. She works at a company in Ginza as a typist. She determines that she needs money for her...
Women in Tokyo