A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An adaptation of the Kawabata Yasunari short story.
While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, ...
Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
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 ...
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even...
A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local ...
An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the ...
After marrying the head of the military, Benio hears her husband died in Siberia during a war. Howev...
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...
Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent...
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of...
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...
Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and...
A marquis' mistress becomes pregnant with fraternal twins. He keeps the boy, but sends his bodyguard...