Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.
A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local ...
While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, ...
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their fi...
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His m...
In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes...
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander...
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of...
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even...
Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship ...
Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and...
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through...
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing...
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu...
Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted childre...