Teruko Kishi

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saeda Kawaguchi

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

1954 Japanese movie

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Chikage Awashima

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

First japanese talking movie.

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Cast: Teruko Kishi

After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.

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Cast: Yasushi Suzuki

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"

Genre: Family

Cast: Teruko Kishi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides to help her and a drunken calligrapher. In doing...

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent...

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Cast: Rieko Sumi

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsutomu Shimomoto

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūko Mochizuki

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Suzuki

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Depicts the boyhood days of Dr. Noguchi, world famous bacteriologist, who was born in a poor village as a farmer's son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eisuke Daigenji

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions...

Genre: War

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an unfamiliar young lady Akiko. She...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Nakaya

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

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasushi Suzuki

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Noboru Nakaya

Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Shinsuke Ashida

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinji Tanaka

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chōchō Miyako

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Ozawa

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: Shinjirō Ehara

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Ishihara