Late Spring

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marr

Early Spring

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

Youth After School

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develo

Island of Horrors

Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the oth

Good Morning

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generation

Aizen katsura

1954 Japanese movie

Zoku jūdai no seiten

Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.

Flower in a Storm

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

Zoku aizen katsura

1962 Japanese movie

Dôkoku

Tokyo Story

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to v

Early Summer

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man

Sodachi zakari

Japanese movie released on September 30 , 1967 . Produced and distributed by Toho . Color , Toho sco

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to

Tokyo's Business District

Battle of Roses

A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheate

Flame of My Love

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where

Youth of the Son

The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin

The Wild Geese

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in

The Daring Nun

One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she oft

Mount Hakone

Japanese drama.

Boy Aviation Pilots

Story of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in entering

Housewife Camellia

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime commit

Queen of the Wind

A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The c

The Trio's Engagements

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japane

San'nin musume kanpai!

1962 Japanese movie

Gonza the Spearman

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appear

君と僕

Hanran

Ejima and Ikushima

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period

Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen

Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).

Poppy

Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of de

Kyōshū

Kobushi no hana no sakukoro

Japanese drama

Haha o tataeru uta

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

Bannai Tarao Series Demon King of Kyokumadan

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.

Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass

The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The

Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a

Alps Story: The Wild

1950 Japanese film

A Brother and His Younger Sister

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. T

A Roaring Trade

Okayo's Preparedness

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance sc

Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi

1962 Japanese movie

Eclipse

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his co

Escapade in Japan

A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriend

Half Virgin

Miyake has a boyfriend, Daijiro Natsukawa, who is a novelist, but considering her future marriage, M

Burden of Life

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to

The Makioka Sisters

Based on the famous novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is a story of the four sisters of the ancient

Until the End of the World

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who

東京の夜は泣いている

Kazuko Matsuo sings the theme song to this drama film.

The Portrait

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artis

Mother's First Love

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and d

Hibari's Tale of Pathos

Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a

Family Diary

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married

Late Night Confession

Japanese mystery thriller.

The Rose on His Arm

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of de

I Yearn for Father

Yuji Makita (Wakahara) came to a hot spring port town as a singer who plays the guitar. Thirteen yea

Tasogare no Tokyo Tower

A sweet and melancholy story that depicts, with beautiful sentimentality, the day when a dreamy and

北上川悲歌

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song by Tsuzuko Sugawara.

Farewell Song

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

The Golden Demon

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playbo

Renai muteki kantai

A 1937 Japanese film.

The Final Winner?

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an E

The Blue Sky Maiden

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family wher

Tokyo Omnibus

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who ru

The Radiant Prince

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji

A Ripple in a Morning

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in pos

Someday I'll Know

A modern love story involving different affairs.

Bright Young Maidens

In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student m

Mother's Ambition

The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu w

An Autumn Afternoon

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she sh

Late Autumn

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular

Introspection Tower

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers an

Journey

The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch

Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding schoo

Wim Wenders in Tokyo

A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video desig

The Snowy Heron

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter.

The Makioka Sisters

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y

On This Earth

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His m

The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges

Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered,

花眞珠

Dianas of the Campus

Homecoming

A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistr

New Woman Question and Answer

Jie attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha and became a l

Children Seeking a Mother

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.

Okinu and Banto

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

The Burdened Sisters

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

The Phantom Horse

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the lo

Chikaiteshi

Love River

Mother

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

White Cliffs

1960 Toei film.

The Eternal Life

This moving movie depicts the preciousness of life through the interaction between a man with a dark

Wakai suhada

1960 Japanese movie

Etajima, the Naval Academy

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Se

Namida no Sekinin

Based on Japanese author Toshitaro Takeda's novel of the same name, the film centers around Takako,

Ah, Youth

Love Under the Crucifix

LOVE UNDER THE CRUCIFIX centers on the forbidden romance between Ogin (Ineko Arima), daughter of a f

Door of Flowers

Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now f

若い涙を吹きとばせ

1961 Japanese movie

白い南風

1961 Japanese movie

Police Precinct: Teenage Footsteps

A 16-year-old high school student Midori Matsumoto was found dead on the banks of the Tama River. Th

Summer in Eclipse

Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with hi

Modern Salaryman: Bushido Romance

Three young employees navigate love, ambition, and meddling bosses as workplace crushes evolve into

Les Mesdemoiselles

A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in t

Jirocho of Shimizu 1: The Glorious Port of Shimizu

Chogoro, the young master of a rice shop who receives sword lessons from Tetsusaburo Yamaoka, travel

Farewell, Innocence

The story follows privileged college students who secretly work part-time at a beauty salon, amidst