Movies

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

On his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie. Enraged, he decides to outdo his father in terms of...

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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...

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a...

1948 Japanese drama film.

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But...

Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in...

Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works...

A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki,...

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair...

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.