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.
In the early 1920s, Yasuko, a budding actress, crosses paths with Chūya Nakahara, a young poet desti...
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their fi...
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...
Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.
Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter...
Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and...
An ambitious businessman knocks up his mistress with fraternal twins. He keeps the boy but sends his...
Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the ...