Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to

Incident at Blood Pass

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th

Omatsuri hanjiro

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun,

Drunken Angel

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculos

A Woman's Life

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Mother

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Untamed Woman

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper,

Long Way to Okinawa

1962 Japanese movie

One Wonderful Sunday

Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase h

Flowing

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Kat

Sound of the Mountain

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slight

Shimizu Port Salaryman

Irresponsible Rascal of Japan

Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".

Home-Brewed Tatsu

1962 Japanese movie

White Beast

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation fac

Floating Clouds

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Jap

Women Doing Time

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

The Last War

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superp

Desperado Outpost

When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second

Black Comedy - Ah, Fool

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

Yearning

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years

Sudden Rain

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

A Woman's Identity

1962 Japanese movie

A Whistle in My Heart

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reac

Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun

1962 Japanese movie

Lord for a Night

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization fr

Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1

1962 Japanese movie

A Dangerous Hero

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

Shin kitsune to tanuki

1962 Japanese movie

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other te

The Storm

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

The Most Beautiful

Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, endurin

No Regrets for Our Youth

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, an

The Quiet Duel

A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation.

Will-o'-the-Wisp

Repast

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and

Lightning

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunction

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen in

Wife

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, mean

A Wife's Heart

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close

The Thin Line

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which

Little Peach

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor

A Wanderer's Notebook

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu

Love Letter

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letter

The Vampire Moth

The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Once More

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a docto

A Smell of Money

Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.

The Spell of the Hidden Gold

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Geisha in the Old City

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a mov

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She

Irresponsible Age of Japan

An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.

An Innocent Witch

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her fat

The Other Woman

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to

The Lost Alibi

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when

The Weed of Crime

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

Ditch

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers.

Hello, Baby

A young Tokyo couple’s blissful newlywed life is turned upside down when an unexpected pregnancy arr

Farewell Rabaul

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they und

Blood and Diamonds

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begi

Those Who Make Tomorrow

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the gr

Samurai Saga

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no

Daredevil in the Castle

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has

The Lovable Tramp

Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with

Farewell, My Beloved

During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Ma

The Three Treasures

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc

Get 'em All

Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks

Moment of Terror

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the drive

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the c

Girls of the Night

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Jap

Three Women of the North

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Thr

Procurer of Hell

Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornog

Husband and Wife

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husba

Adolescence Part II

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

A Bridge for Two Alone

Lovetide

An Ishiro Honda film.

Mother and Son

An Ishiro Honda film.

The Story of Iron Arm Inao

An Ishiro Honda film.

Forbidden Affair

Ryô is a young leopard, Maki a rhythmical wave. The barrier between a teacher and a student gives wa

Chûshingura

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c

Blood on the Sea

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Nichijô no tatakai

Happiness of Us Alone

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a scho

Eleven High School Girls

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with yo

As Long as I Live

Yasugorō shusse

Red-Light Bases

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

Love Never Fails

Two youths – the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal – quarrel over a restaurant keep

Pretty Devil Yoko

Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Toky

Tora-san's Song of Love

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san

Early Spring

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship

Life of a Country Doctor

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and nov

Garakuta

1964 Japanese movie

Uta e! Taiyō

1945 Japanese movie

Chained Bitch

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

A Female Doctor's Examination Room

A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more sur

Awamori-kun nishi-e iku

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi

Who Is the Informer?

After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out

The Preacher of Love

1961 Japanese movie

How the Bell of Liberty Rings

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who def

12 Chapters About Women

Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta w

The Terrible Game

Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with t

Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring

At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scan

Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō

1961 Japanese movie

The Shadow Daughter

Fusako, a girl raised in a geisha house, tries to escape her dark past and faces repeated heartbreak

Fox and Raccoon

A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and

The Lucky Chair

Eacape of Fear

The story follows a man haunted by debt and crime, who flees with his mistress on a tense journey ma

Kojinbutu no fufu

Engagement Ring

A wealthy young man, engaged through family arrangement, meets a humble shop girl after she finds hi

The Decoy

Thriller about three escaped convicts, one of whom (Sato), plans to murder the wife of a detective (