Movies

The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new...

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

A man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many join in hunting it.

Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows...

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.

A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled...

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

During the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends, spend their days acquiring skills of the spear, sword...

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...

A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up...

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...

Japanese film.