Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s...

In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by ...

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new...

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded...

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial p...

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passag...

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpect...

Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase h...

Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman...

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and ...

In the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate...

The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ig...

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal s...

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...

An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to...

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a fo...

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact...