Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His m...
A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local ...
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even...
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
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...
Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the ...
An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander...
Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship ...
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...
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of...
Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie t...
Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and...
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneduc...
A marquis' mistress becomes pregnant with fraternal twins. He keeps the boy, but sends his bodyguard...
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.