Car Thieves

Mixed-race children in Japan become involved in the petty theft of car parts.

Goodbye Mr. Tears

An American-Japanese girl travels to Japan to find her mother.

Beautiful Calendar

Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there i

The Frozen Plains

1962 Japanese movie

Watashi, chigatteiru kashira

Children of Hiroshima

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the s

Man of the House

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wif

Streetlights

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropp

What Price Love?

Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebra

Lost Love

Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his

Fighting Delinquents

This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who sud

限りなき情熱

Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustl

This Day's Life

Late Chrysanthemums

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mothe

Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly

Buddha

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years

The War Without Weapons

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which wa

High School Third Graders

In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie

Before Dawn

The Call of Blood

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

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

Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection

[Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. B

The Maid's Kid

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akit

The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. H

A Secret Rendezvous

After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of

The Golden Demon

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement

Shi no machi wo nogarete

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

The Seasons of Love

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thank

Love is Lost

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

That Guy and I

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, sh

Windy Street

Drifting

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

The President's Son

The Young and Bad

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business

Miniature

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha

The Passionate Spinster

She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako

A Design for Dying

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are R

Tokyo Knights

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

Children of Izu

The Snowy Heron

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

Actress

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasin

Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou

A Samurai Never Tells a Lie

The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be

Gambler's Dilemma

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her fa

Profound Desires of the Gods

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori cla

Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu

Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells hi

The Flame of Devotion

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman

The Day of Youth

At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wi

Sunset Hill

A yakuza falls in love with his brother's mistress while he is serving his sentence, and hides out i

Wakarete ikiru toki mo

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

小さな花の物語