Ranko Akagi

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masumi Harukawa

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon...

Genre: War

Cast: Ayako Wakao

School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings near the end of WWII.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Nakahara

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Chiba

Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ichirō Ryūzaki

Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of his supposed stubbornness....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Hidaka

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Akagi

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Akagi

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

Okumura Ioko story directed by Shiro Toyoda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Akagi

Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she...

Genre:

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Wakayama

1950s Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

Follow-up to 'The People of Sunagawa'

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ranko Akagi