Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of becoming the Shogi Grand Master Champion, everything is at stake – including his family. What will it cost for Sakata to follow his passion?
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wo...
A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local ...
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their fi...
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi pla...
Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.
While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, ...
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His m...
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of...
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...
Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people ...
Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship ...
An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander...
Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent...
In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes...
An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the ...
Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and...
Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a li...