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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu...

The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of ri...