While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, a pretty young dancer in a troupe of travelling performers, and he tags along with them on their journeys.
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local ...
Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their fi...
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His 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...
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of...
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...
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...
Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and...
In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, ...
An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the ...
In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes...
After marrying the head of the military, Benio hears her husband died in Siberia during a war. Howev...
Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about...
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as To...