A visit to the employment office, practicing dance steps, making music with friends: several women’s everyday lives are captured in long shots and with a superb sense of place. A film like a summer's day, bright, friendly, with the occasional chill.

Three people from a former theater club get back in touch for the first time in 20 years during the ...

It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband...

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlockin...

In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In ...

A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote ...

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to v...

On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among...

Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's fami...

Shun Miyata's new life in Tokyo takes a dark turn when he and coworker Yuka discover their boss Yuri...

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yak...

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret ...

Max is a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel. However...

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction...
A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding lo...

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...

At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boardi...

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the comp...

Mr. Takazawa, an elderly invalid who is cared for at his home by Haruko, a young nursing student, is...