Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their fi...
A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local ...
While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, ...
The story follows Benio "Haikara-san" Hanamura, who lost her mother when she was very young and has ...
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even...
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...
An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander...
Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship ...
Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent...
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as To...
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...
Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted childre...
Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the...