Movies

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

During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of traveling entertainers – including Kaoru...

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of eight policemen solve a series of unusual cases,...

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...

Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and grievances in lives, they give support and...

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

Japanese suspense film.

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.

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

Comedy drama film

1962 Japanese movie

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