Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander...
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...
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even...
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His m...
Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship ...
In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes...
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of...
An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the ...
Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent...
After marrying the head of the military, Benio hears her husband died in Siberia during a war. Howev...
In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, ...
Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and...
Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted childre...
A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing...
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, ...
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career i...
In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three childr...