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.

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

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

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

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shige...

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

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

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

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

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergeneration...

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a vo...

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 ...

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

Set in post-war Okinawa, Japan, Gusuku had 3 close childhood friends: On, Yamako and On's younger br...

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

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

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

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