Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for

Shachō to onna tenin

At a Crossroads

Mole Alley

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 1

Birth of Romance

The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and M

Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki

Surging Waves

Sunny house

On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by b

Utau yajikita kogane dōchū

1957 Japanese movie

A Star Athlete

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is test

The Genealogy of Women

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparentl

Five Siblings

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. Th

Southern Wind

Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is

Otoko no iki

This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was st

のんき侍大暴れ

In the mid-Tokugawa period, a conflict arose over the "Seiryū Himon," a secret document left by the

One Step to Happiness

Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido

Kintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads

Tomorrow Will Be Fine Weather

Lost for 70 years until 2022, Shimizu’s second postwar film recalls Mr. Thank You as he frames the n

Okoto and Sasuke

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devo

New Tokyo March

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engin

Dancing Mistress

Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls i

A Certain Woman

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a nu

The Layabout and Seabathing

The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer ca

A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Sôbô

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Notes of an Itinerant Performer

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a tr

South Wind 2

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in

Always in My Heart Part 2

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

続二等兵物語　決戦体制の巻

Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

The Foster Mother

A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her fo

Hobo Village

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Days of Youth

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

Four Seasons of Children

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the fa

When It Rains, It Pours

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When h

The Spy Has Not Died Yet

The Man Who Has Returned

Warm Current

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital,

The Lights of Asakusa

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f

Nobuko

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and

Jubilation Street

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand

The Neighbour's Wife and Mine

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers t

The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant

The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men at

Mr. Shosuke Ohara

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that

The Ball at the Anjo House

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion

The Boss's Son at College

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's

There Was a Father

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither

Ornamental Hairpin

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a

The Only Son

A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite thei

Street Without End

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, de

The Masseurs and a Woman

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masse

Apart from You

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geish

I Graduated, But...

Tetsuo Nomoto, a young college graduate tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will mar

Farewell to Dream

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dream

Carmen's Innocent Love

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politi

A Japanese Tragedy

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her un

Scandal

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a pain

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

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

Family Meeting

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

The Loyal 47 Ronin

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura s

Physical Beauty

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with h

Passion

Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Tak

Under the Blossoming Peach

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring

Goodbye to the Front

A 1937 Japanese film.

Silver Stream

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the

Odoru ryûgûjô

Dancing Girls of Izu

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their fi

娘十八嘘つき時代

Homecoming

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

Waiting Woman

Waiting woman

Weeds with flowers

Weed with Flowers

Dance of the Capital

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

Peko-chan and Densuke

Dawn Chorus

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.

Namida no Sekinin

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

悲しき瞳

Shinjiro Tanabe, a teacher at a junior high school in the downtown area of ​​Tokyo, has two daughter

Monster with Twenty Faces

Edogawa Rampo's famous detective, part 1

Brave Love

Japanese film from 1925.

Oh! Carefree, Aren't You?

Short Japanese silent comedy from 1926. Directed by "Kamata Nonkinosuke," a probable pseudonym for a

Young Master

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the f

Symphony of Youth

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Song of Youth

Shirō Kuroki, the adopted son of the Yamada family, shares a deep and mutual love with his foster si

Onna no ryūkō

Youth, Why Do You Cry?

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

Cry Cheerfully!

Japanese silent film from 1931.

Sisters: Part 1

Japanese silent film from 1931.

Sisters: Part 2

Japanese silent film from 1931.

The Golden Demon

Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to ma

The Sun Rises from the East

The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directe

The Cheerleading Captain's Love

Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he

Mother of the East

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

学生社長

The story centers on three students from Jiyu University who set up a part-time limited partnership,

女の宿