Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...

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...

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...

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 ...

The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even...

Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent...

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...

The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneduc...

Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of...

Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the ...

An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the ...

Late Taishō period. The Shibatora family, led by Naojirō, held power over the Tomigawara area in Jōs...

In the early 1920s, Yasuko, a budding actress, crosses paths with Chūya Nakahara, a young poet desti...

In turn of the 20th Century Japan, a period characterized by widespread innovation and social restru...

Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.

A marquis' mistress becomes pregnant with fraternal twins. He keeps the boy, but sends his bodyguard...