Natsuko Kahara

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruko Sugimura

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Harada

A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mariko Okada

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emiko Takahashi

Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Takahashi

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

A 1948 Japanese film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Usami

A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mie Hama

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

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Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michiko Ai

A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fumio Watanabe

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

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Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Momoi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ichirō Zaitsu

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

Genre: History

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

Genre: History

Cast: Yatsuko Tan'ami

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasuko Kawakami

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

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Cast: Kumiko Ohba

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Chikage Awashima

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Cast: Yūzō Kayama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

Special 50th anniversary recording of the Tokyo Imperial Theater production of the Fiddler on the Roof. Set in the little village of Anatevka, the...

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mie Nakao

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta