Movies

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a...

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks...

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both...

After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.

Comedy of a phony doctor.

A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.

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...

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...

Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic...

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.