Movies

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...

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...

A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each...

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...

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

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

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

Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attempted surgery and years of struggle, her...

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...

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

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

A 1948 Japanese film.

The fourth instalment in the Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei series.

Mie Nakao runs away from home to join her older sister's production company as a new talent. We follow her ups and downs on the way to stardom as she...

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...

1961 Japanese movie

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

When he was a little boy, Tokitō Kensaku was sent to live with his paternal grandfather and his mistress Oei. Years later, Kensaku realizes he...