Movies

Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura,...

A young woman (Kuga), recuperating at a sanitarium in Karuizawa, falls in love with a young student (Ishihama) but returns to Tokyo to be with her...

Based on Haruko Ōta's memoir.

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...

American Sergeant falls in love with a Japanese woman.

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose...

In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law—descend into...

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes...

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

This story depicts how a once-famous married couple of manga artists refused to be defeated by their current poverty.

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...