Yatsuko Tan'ami

In the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the...

Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.

A greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles.

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Nanase, who inherited psychic powers from her father, searches for his whereabouts while working as a housekeeper.

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are actually brother and sister.

Fuyuko (Tomoko Nakajima), begins the film nine months pregnant, but doesn't deliver until her third year, to the bafflement of all around her.

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Heinosuke Gosho movie

This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The...

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of...

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women...

In Jimpachi Kodera's household, young samurai Keishiro Kanie arrives, captivating Jimpachi's wife, Shoko, despite his initially arrogant demeanor....

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san"...

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish...

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still...

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...

Hama-chan gets Su-san hooked on fishing, but Su-san has some problems to deal with; a beautiful woman saves Su-san when he collapses while fishing.

Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san's behalf in a case of mistaken identity.

Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time.

Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral...

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to...

When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a...

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew joins Hama-chan's department at the company.

Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.

A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds...

Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his...

Adaptation of novel.

Akiko lives with her brother Toshio in suburban Tokyo working in different companies. One day, Toshio loses 500,000 yen which he was holding for his...

A new stationmaster is appointed to a dilapidated local line. On top of the failing local line feuding for hot spring customers with a bus company...

A death occurs during a mountain-climbing expedition.

Natsuko is witnessed carrying on an affair with her boss, Misawa, by the unmarried Chieko. However, Chieko dies by falling and is found about ten...

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...

Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo office. After settling in to his surrounding along...

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...