A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. A...

Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yea...

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the groc...

Japanese gangster drama set in the exclusive Ginza district of Tokyo, following Haruka (Atsuko Sakur...

In a continuation of "Utopia: Midnight Story, White Flower Bud" Haruka Ichijou follows through in he...

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

The sinister Dr. Watt has an evil scheme going—he's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning the...

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...

Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to Fran...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...

Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to...

A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th centu...

Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanes...

Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During ...

Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in...

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, ...

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, L...