Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...

An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander...

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His m...

The story follows Benio "Haikara-san" Hanamura, who lost her mother when she was very young and has ...

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...

Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...

Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship ...

The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even...

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...

An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the ...

Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of...

The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneduc...

In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, ...

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes...

Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and...

Late Taishō period. The Shibatora family, led by Naojirō, held power over the Tomigawara area in Jōs...

After marrying the head of the military, Benio hears her husband died in Siberia during a war. Howev...

In the early 1920s, Yasuko, a budding actress, crosses paths with Chūya Nakahara, a young poet desti...

When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in ...