In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love with Shintaro. But Takichi objects to their relationship...

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

Kokko is a third grade elementary school student. Even though she has a family who loves her, Kokko ...

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow ...

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor...

Depressed and in debt, Santoshi tells his young daughter that he is going to find an infamous serial...

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

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The...

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society...

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y...

At midnight, in a residential area of Osaka, a middle aged man is murdered. The person who killed th...

Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Te...

Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggl...

National Audit Bureau member Hajime Matsudaira (Shinichi Tsutsumi), Tadako Torii (Haruka Ayase) & As...

Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However...

The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. ...

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble o...

Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a li...

In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea...

A film about family life in Osaka. Following the death of their father, three boys struggle to find ...

Ichijo Sayuri, once the legendary queen of Osaka strippers, has retired to run a sushi shop. She is ...