Teruko Nagaoka

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiji Sada

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emiko Takahashi

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Oshin comes from a family of poor rice farmers. Her father and brother must work in the fields and her grandmother and mother, who is expecting...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Ayako Kobayashi

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koreya Senda

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a...

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Cast: Eijirō Yanagi

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...

Genre: History

Cast: Yatsuko Tan'ami

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

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Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

The 25 minute film tells the tale of an ailing elderly woman named Itako who encounters a fox named Okon. The story opens with Itako lying...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Teruko Nagaoka

Film directed by Kenji Misumi

Genre: Action

Cast: Tōru Abe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuo Nakamura

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi